A method for comparing within-core alpha diversity values from repeated multicorer samplings, shown for abyssal Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the Angola Basin

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages 3-17

  Rose, Armin ^a   Seifried, Sybille ^b   Willen, Elke ^b   George, Kai Horst ^a   Veit Köhler, Gritta ^a   Bröhldick, Karin ^b   Drewes, Jan ^b   Moura, Gisela ^c   Arbizu, Pedro Martínez ^a   Schminke, Horst Kurt ^b  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Deep sea; Diversity comparison method; Harpacticoid copepods; Meiofauna; Minimum spanning tree test; Productivity; Scale dependency

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; MEIOFAUNA; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANGOLA BASIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

AMEIRIDAE; ARGESTIDAE; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; ECTINOSOMATIDAE; HARPACTICOIDA; PSEUDOTACHIDIIDAE;

EID: 19944433902     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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