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If you set out to answer questions about species diversity, there are two questions you need to consider - how is diversity generated, and how is diversity maintained?
The simplest measure of diversity (and the one I am interested in here) is "species richness" - put simply, the number of species in a given area.
This figure from the Wikipedia article on speciation summarises the different modes of speciation.
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