Scale-dependent variation in coral community similarity across sites, islands, and island groups

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1707-1715

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

diversity; diversity; diversity; Community similarity; Coral; Dispersal limitation; Underdispersion

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL; EXTINCTION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT TYPE; ISLAND; REEF; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

ANTHOZOA; MYCTEROPERCA FUSCA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 34548452629     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0742.1     Document Type: Article

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