Deconstructing latitudinal species richness patterns in the ocean: Does larval development hold the clue?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 601-611

  Fernández, Miriam ^a   Astorga, Anna ^a,d   Navarrete, Sergio A ^a   Valdovinos, Claudio ^b   Marquet, Pablo A ^a,c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diversity patterns; Larval development; Primary production; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; PLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHILE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHILE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; INVERTEBRATES; LARVA; OCEANS AND SEAS; TEMPERATURE;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 66749170715     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01315.x     Document Type: Article

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