Determinants of the steep species-area relationship of coral reef fishes

Coral Reefs

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-112

  Belmaker, J ^a,b   Ben Moshe, N ^a,b   Ziv, Y ^a   Shashar, N ^a,b,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Nested subset; Red Sea; Scale; SPAR; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; PATCHINESS; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 33947692166     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-006-0162-1     Document Type: Article

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