Taxonomic relatedness and spatial structure of a shelf benthic gastropod assemblage

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-34

  Carranza, Alvar ^a,b   Defeo, Omar ^a,c   Arim, Matías ^d  

^a Unidad en Desarrollo de Ciencias del Mar   (Uruguay)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA NATURAL   (Uruguay)

^c Direccion Nacional de Recursos Acuaticos   (Uruguay)

^d Facultad de Ciencias   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Community phylogenetics; Conservation biogeography; Macroecology; Marine invertebrates; R o de la Plata; South western Atlantic Ocean

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COEXISTENCE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; GASTROPOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MACROECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; RELATEDNESS; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650031717     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00720.x     Document Type: Article

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