Latitudinal gradient of species diversity: Multi-scale variability in rocky intertidal sessile assemblages along the Northwestern Pacific coast

Population Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 159-170

  Okuda, Takehiro ^a   Noda, Takashi ^a   Yamamoto, Tomoko ^b   Ito, Norihiko ^c   Nakaoka, Masahiro ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

, , and diversity; Diversity component; Hierarchical spatial scale; Simpson's diversity index; Species richness

Indexed keywords

LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; ROCKY SHORE; SCALE EFFECT; SESSILE SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 4644278463     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-004-0185-9     Document Type: Article

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