Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity

Nature

Volumn 501, Issue 7468, 2013, Pages 539-542

  Stuart Smith, Rick D ^a   Bates, Amanda E ^a   Lefcheck, Jonathan S ^b   Duffy, J Emmett ^b   Baker, Susan C ^c   Thomson, Russell J ^a   Stuart Smith, Jemina F ^a   Hill, Nicole A ^a   Kininmonth, Stuart J ^d   Airoldi, Laura ^e,f   Becerro, Mikel A ^g   Campbell, Stuart J ^h   Dawson, Terence P ⁱ   Navarrete, Sergio A ^j   Soler, German A ^a   Strain, Elisabeth M A ^e   Willis, Trevor J ^k   Edgar, Graham J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^h Wildlife Conservation Society Bogor   (Indonesia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^j PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^k UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FISH; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; REEF; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84885635064     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12529     Document Type: Article

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