Ocean-scale patterns of 'biodiversity' of Atlantic asteroids determined from taxonomic distinctness and other measures

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 187-203

  Price, A R G ^a   Keeling, M J ^a,b   O'Callaghan, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Echinoderms; Spatial diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEPTH; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 0032990446     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1998.0275     Document Type: Article

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