Additive Partitioning of Coral Reef Fish Diversity across Hierarchical Spatial Scales throughout the Caribbean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Francisco Ramos, Vanessa ^a   Arias González, Jesús Ernesto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CORAL REEF; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FISHERY; NONHUMAN; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CARIBBEAN REGION; CORAL REEFS; FISHES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84886441743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078761     Document Type: Article

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