Simberloff and Wilson conducted a well-known experiment in which they fumigated small mangrove islands and observed the recovery through time of arthropod communities on these islands. They found that mangrove islands tended to recover to about the same number of species present pre-fumigation. Which proposition of the equilibrium theory of island biogeography did this observation support?
A) Islands distant from the mainland have fewer species than islands close to the mainland.
B) Small islands have fewer species than large islands.
C) Each island has an equilibrium number of species.
Ans: C) Each island has an equilibrium number of species.
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