What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan

Exercise 15

By fumigating several islands in the Florida Keys with methyl bromide, E. O. Wilson and Daniel Simberloff demonstrated that:
A) the equilibrium number of insect species was a function of island size and distance from the mainland.
B) colonization of an island by new species can no longer occur once the island is "full."
C) for plant but not insect species, the relation of area to species number holds true for all islands.
D) the effects of global warming will be greater on islands than on the mainland.
E) species turnover rates are highest on small, more distant islands.