Important Terms
Range – means the total area occupied by the species of interest in the region under study (see below ‘Which Range’)
Abundance – means the average density of the species of interest across all occupied patches (i.e. average abundance does not include the area of unoccupied patches)
Intraspecific occupancy–abundance relationship – means the relationship between abundance and range size within a single species generated using time series data
Interspecific occupancy–abundance relationship – means the relationship between relative abundance and range size of an assemblage of closely related species at a specific point in time (or averaged across a short time period). The interspecific O-A relationship may arise from the combination of the intraspecific O–A relationships within the region
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