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Most plant species per square metre
There's lies, damned lies and statistics. Happens all the time.- Arbu
- Post #15
- Forum: Trees, Flowers, Plants and Shrubs
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Most plant species per square metre
That's what I'm saying. You can cherry-pick the area in order to give each of a number of different habitats the title.- Arbu
- Post #11
- Forum: Trees, Flowers, Plants and Shrubs
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Most plant species per square metre
There are only two possible meanings of "per square metre" here. Either it's a typical square metre, as I suggested in my first post, or it's just meant as an arbitrary reference to a unit of area, referring to the whole existing area of the habitat. So I took it that the claim must refer to the...- Arbu
- Post #6
- Forum: Trees, Flowers, Plants and Shrubs
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Most plant species per square metre
So you're saying the figure relates to all habitats on earth, calculating a figure by dividing the number of species in them by the area. Which means it just comes down to how narrowly you define a habitat. The fynbos have an area of 90,000km2 and about 9,000 species of plant. So that means one...- Arbu
- Post #3
- Forum: Trees, Flowers, Plants and Shrubs
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Most plant species per square metre
Where to Watch Birds in Africa states (page 316) that the fynbos of the mountains of the South African Cape support more plant species per square metre than any other habitat on earth. Is this true? Clearly a typical square metre of fertile meadow will hold more species than a typical square...- Arbu
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