Two ecologists, Robert H. MacArthur and Edward Wilson, studied how organisms immigrate to islands and how their numbers change after colonization. They developed the island biogeography model to explain the composition and diversity of island species. The graph below shows the number of species versus the size of the Caribbean island: Number of Species 1,000 100 10 1 Redona SPECIES BY AREA Saba Puerto Rico: Monserrat 1,000 Hispaniola Jamaica 10.000 Cuba 100,000 1,000,000

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Two ecologists, Robert H. MacArthur and Edward Wilson, studied how organisms immigrate to islands and how their numbers
change after colonization. They developed the island biogeography model to explain the composition and diversity of island
species. The graph below shows the number of species versus the size of the Caribbean island:
Number of Species
1,000
100
10
1
Redona
10
SPECIES BY AREA
Saba
Puerto Rico
Monserrat
100
1,000
Hispaniola
Jamaica
10,000
Jeland Size in Square Kilometers
Cuba
100,000
1,000,000
Transcribed Image Text:Two ecologists, Robert H. MacArthur and Edward Wilson, studied how organisms immigrate to islands and how their numbers change after colonization. They developed the island biogeography model to explain the composition and diversity of island species. The graph below shows the number of species versus the size of the Caribbean island: Number of Species 1,000 100 10 1 Redona 10 SPECIES BY AREA Saba Puerto Rico Monserrat 100 1,000 Hispaniola Jamaica 10,000 Jeland Size in Square Kilometers Cuba 100,000 1,000,000
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