Consistent abundance distributions of marine fishes in an old, climatically buffered, infertile seascape

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 886-897

  Langlois, Timothy J ^a   Radford, Ben T ^a   Van Niel, Kimberley P ^a   Meeuwig, Jessica J ^a   Pearce, Alan F ^b   Rousseaux, Cecile S G ^a,c   Kendrick, Gary A ^a   Harvey, Euan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance distribution; Abundant centre; Australia; Demersal fish; Indian Ocean; Latitude; Ocean solutions; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMERSAL FISH; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT USE; MACROECOLOGY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

PISCES;

EID: 84863586489     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00734.x     Document Type: Article

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