Global, regional, and local patterns in species richness and abundance of butterflyfishes

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 69-91

  Findley, James S ^a   Findley, Muriel T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterflyfish; Chaetodontidae; Community structure, relation to species richness; Density compensation; Diversity gradients; Dominance vs. richness; Longitudinal; Niche breadth vs. species richness; Saturation vs. proportional sampling; Species richness and abundance; Species richness gradient

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANTHOZOA; CHAETODONTIDAE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; PANTODONTIDAE;

EID: 0035129366     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2001)071[0069:GRALPI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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