Measure and mis-measure of species diversity in deep-sea chemosynthetic communities

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 402, Issue , 2010, Pages 285-302

  Gauthier, Olivier ^a   Sarrazin, Jozée ^a   Desbruyères, Daniel ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Chemosynthetic community; Deep sea ecosystems; Diversity ordering; Diversity profiles; Evenness; Rarefaction; Richness; Species diversity; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

CHEMOSYNTHESIS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; LITERATURE REVIEW; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 77954110347     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08395     Document Type: Review

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