Species richness in marine phytoplankton communities is not correlated to ecosystem productivity

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 488, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-9

  Cermeño, Pedro ^a   Rodríguez Ramos, Tamara ^b   Dornelas, Maria ^c   Figueiras, Francisco G ^d   Marañón, Emilio ^b   Teixeira, Isabel G ^b   Vallina, Sergio M ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diversity productivity relationship; Rarefaction; Species abundance distribution; Undersampling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROPLANKTON; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84882378363     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10443     Document Type: Article

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