Low functional β-diversity despite high taxonomic β-diversity among tropical estuarine fish communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Villéger, Sébastien ^a   Miranda, Julia Ramos ^b   Hernandez, Domingo Flores ^b   Mouillot, David ^c,d  

^a École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CAMPECHE   (Mexico)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL GROUP;

AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; GULF OF MEXICO; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84863615315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040679     Document Type: Article

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