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Appendix B. Comparison of AIC values for model selection.

TABLE B1. Difference between the AIC of the best model and a sampling model and three forms of a species–time–area relationship (see Table 1). The best model (lowest AIC) takes a value of 0. All models were based on mean species numbers at each combination of spatial and temporal scale.