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John Harte, Sarah McCarthy, Kevin Taylor, Ann Kinzig, Marc L. Fischer, Estimating Species-Area Relationships from Plot to Landscape Scale Using Species Spatial-Turnover Data, Oikos, Vol. 86, No. 1 (Jul., 1999), pp. 45-54
Harte et al. (Thu,) studied this question.