Two oceans, two taxa and one mode of development: Latitudinal diversity patterns of South American crabs and test for possible causal processes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 420-427

  Astorga, Anna ^a   Fernández, Miriam ^a   Boschi, Enrique E ^b   Lagos, Nelson ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO PESQUERO INIDEP   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Crustacea; Diversity; Larval development; Range size; Southern hemisphere; Species area; Species energy

Indexed keywords

CRAB; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; RANGE SIZE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANOMURA; BRACHYURA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 0038059042     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00445.x     Document Type: Article

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