Scaling up beta diversity on Caribbean coral reefs

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 366, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 28-36

  Arias González, Jesús Ernesto ^a   Legendre, Pierre ^b   Rodríguez Zaragoza, Fabián Alejandro ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Caribbean Sea; Coral reef fish; Coral reefs; MesoAmerican Reef System (MAR); Spatial patterns; Yucatan Peninsula

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL REEF; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 54049112577     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2008.07.035     Document Type: Article

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