Contrasting changes in taxonomie vs. functional diversity of tropical fish communities after habitat degradation

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1512-1522

  Villéger, Sébastien ^a   Miranda, Julia Ramos ^b   Hernández, Domingo Flores ^b   Mouillot, David ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CAMPECHE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Environmental changes; Estuarine ecosystem; Eutrophication; Fish ecomorphology; Functional divergence; Functional evenness; Functional richness; Gulf of mexico; Human disturbance; Seagrass; Terminos lagoon

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; DIVERGENCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EUTROPHICATION; FISH; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DECLINE; SEAGRASS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL REGION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAMPECHE; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TERMINOS LAGOON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; MEXICO; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 77956427882     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1310.1     Document Type: Article

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