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'''The resource fragmentation hypothesis''' was first proposed by [[Janzen & Pond]] (1975), and says that as [[species]] richness becomes large there is not a linear increase in the number of [[parasitoid]] species that can be supported. The mechanism for this [[hyperbolic function|hyperbolic]]{{Disambiguation needed|date=December 2012}} relationship is suggested to be that each of the new host species are too rare to support the evolution of specialist parasitoids (Janzen & Pond, 1975). The resource fragmentation hypothesis is one of two hypotheses that seek to explain the distribution of the [[Ichneumonidae]].

==Further reading==