The relationship between nested subsets,
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Rosamonde R. Cook
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Article
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1995
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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Biotic assemblages are said to be nested when the species making up relatively species-poor biotas comprise subsets of the species present at richer sites. Because species number and site area are often correlated, previous studies have suggested that nestedness may be relevant to questions of how h