Which statement about the redundancy hypothesis, explaining the relationship between species diversity and community function, is false?
A) It best fits the results of Tilman and colleagues.
B) It assumes that in these relationships, species will often overlap in ecological function.
C) It predicts a linear relationship between species richness and community function.
D) It predicts the value of adding species eventually decreases with increasing species richness.

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The redundancy hypothesis does not predict a linear relationship between species richness and community function. Instead, it suggests that the value of adding species decreases as species richness increases, due to overlapping ecological functions.

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