The completeness of taxonomic inventories for describing the global diversity and distribution of marine fishes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1631, 2008, Pages 149-155

  Mora, Camilo ^a   Tittensor, Derek P ^a   Myers, Ransom A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Completeness; Fishes; Global; Spatial scales; Species; Taxonomic census

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATABASE; EXTINCTION RISK; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

PISCES;

EID: 36448931612     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1315     Document Type: Article

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