Regional variation in the hierarchical partitioning of diversity in coral-dwelling fishes

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2829-2840

  Belmaker, Jonathan ^a,b   Ziv, Yaron ^a   Shashar, Nadav ^a   Connolly, Sean R ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Additive partitioning; Coral reefs; Fish; Gamma diversity; Scale; Similarity; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; FISH; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 49249111850     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1464.1     Document Type: Article

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