Water flow drives biodiversity by mediating rarity in marine benthic communities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-68

  Palardy, James E ^a   Witman, Jon D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Flow; Metacommunities; Rarity; Recruitment; Species density; Species diversity; Species pools; Species richness

Indexed keywords

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EID: 78650045752     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01555.x     Document Type: Article

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