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Appendix F. The peaked relationship between total avian species richness and the proportion of natural land cover reconstructed by the sum of two derived species-area models.
Fig. F1. The pattern of total avian richness as function of forest cover reconstructed with different multi-habitat models approaches. Open circles represent observed total richness in 991 quadrats in southern Ontario (solid line, LOWESS curve). Open models represent open-habitat richness modeled as a function of human-dominated landscapes, and forest models fit forest richness as function of forest cover. Dotted-line: the sum of the best-fitting species-area relationships for open-habitat species richness (LH-SAR) and forest species richness (Classic-SAR). Long-dashed line represent the sum of two Classic-SAR models (Desrochers et al. 2011) fitted for open-habitat and forest richness. The sum of the two Countryside-SARs also predicts total richness as the sum of two Classic-SARs (dotted gray line over the long-dashed line). Model parameters and statistics are presented in the main text (Table 1).
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