Assembly rules and functional groups at global biogeographical scales

Functional Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 557-562

  Bellwood, D R ^a   Wainwright, P C ^b   Fulton, C J ^a   Hoey, A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coral reef fishes; Labridae; Swimming performance

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; ICHTHYOFAUNA; SWIMMING; WAVE ACTION;

AUSTRALIA; CARIBBEAN SEA; FRENCH POLYNESIA;

ANTHOZOA; LABRIDAE; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036792360     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2002.00655.x     Document Type: Article

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