Adaptation has costly side effects

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Net primary productivity is commonly measured by harvesting a defined area of an ecosystem at the end of the growing season and determining the accumulated biomass of producers

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Remote sensing A technique that measures conditions on Earth from a distant location, typically using satellites or airplanes that take photographs of large areas of the globe. 

Satellite images of ecosystems that show a pattern of high absorption of blue and red light and high reflectance of green light indicate ecosystems with high standing crops of producers.

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Succession is affected by the distance that dispersing organisms have to travel from undisturbed mainland areas.

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Number of species of plants on island per year

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Theory of island biogeography

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The rate of extinction is low at the time of first colonization and immigration rate is highest