Predicting coral species richness: The effect of input variables, diversity and scale

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Richards, Zoe T ^a   Hobbs, Jean Paul A ^b  

^a WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL; CORAL REEF; GENERIC RICHNES; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY;

EID: 84898640458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083965     Document Type: Article

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