Functional redundancy patterns reveal non-random assembly rules in a species-rich marine assemblage

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Guillemot, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Kulbicki, Michel ^d   Chabanet, Pascale ^d   Vigliola, Laurent ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^c Koniambo Nickel SAS   (New Caledonia)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; HABITAT QUALITY; MARINE BIOLOGY; MARINE SPECIES; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; MARINE BIOLOGY; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 80054833820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026735     Document Type: Article

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