Refer to the Table and Figure

question 42

Essay

Refer to the table and figure.
Table 2
Figure 4
You are studying the long-term effects of plate movement for two land masses, land mass A and land mass B. Your goal is to understand how land mass movement has affected the species found on each land mass. Land mass B joined with land mass A 30 million years ago. Table 2 shows the number of individuals of each species (species A-F) found living on land mass B over time. Figure 4 shows these data plotted.
- Suppose land mass A has a land area five times greater than the area of land mass B. Based on the species-area relationship, do you expect that species richness will be higher or lower on land mass A compared to land mass B? Why?

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