Coral communities are regionally enriched along an oceanic biodiversity gradient

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6994, 2004, Pages 867-870

  Karlson, Ronald H ^a   Cornell, Howard V ^a   Hughes, Terence P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; OCEAN HABITATS;

CORAL COMMUNITIES; ENDANGERED COMMUNITIES;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CORAL; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AMERICAN SAMOA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CORAL REEF; ECOLOGY; INDIAN OCEAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLOMON ISLANDS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 3042626096     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02685     Document Type: Article

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