You construct two species-area relationships for terrestrial plants, modeling both with the relationship log S = log c + z log A. One relationship is for data collected from islands of different sizes. The other is for data collected from continental areas over a similar size range. Which of these relationships is likely to have the greater slope, z?
A) the one for islands
B) the one for continental areas
C) neither A nor B
Ans: A) the one for islands
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