Simulating Species Richness Using Agents with Evolving Niches, with an Example of Galápagos Plants

<table>Modeled native plant species richness plotted against observe richness for 22 islands of the Galápagos Archipelago.  A regression line provides reference (<svg height="7.9499998" id="M15" style="vertical-align:-0.1638pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 7.3000002 7.9499998" width="7.3000002" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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</svg> = 0.957, 60 simulations).</table>

International Journal of Ecology

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Figure 3: Simulating Species Richness Using Agents with Evolving Niches, with an Example of Galápagos Plants 