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The species-area relationship of European Lumbricidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta)

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Studies throughout Europe reporting species lists of lumbricid earthworms and ranging from 100 m2 to >500000 km2 are analysed for the regression of species number S on size of area A [km2]. This species-area relation is described by: S=7.9*A 0.09 (r=0.76).

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Revised version of a poster presented at the Wilhelm Michaelsen Memorial Symposium (International Symposium on Terrestrial Oligochaeta), Hamburg Sept. 14–18th 1987

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Judas, M. The species-area relationship of European Lumbricidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta). Oecologia 76, 579–587 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00397874

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