RAD biodiversity: Prediction of rank abundance distributions from deep water benthic assemblages

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 798-806

  Dunstan, Piers K ^a   Foster, Scott D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DEEP WATER; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80054834963     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06552.x     Document Type: Article

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