Genera as proxies for species α- and β-diversity: Tested across a deep-water Atlantic-Arctic boundary

Marine Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 436-444

  Bett, Brian J ^a   Narayanaswamy, Bhavani E ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Deep sea; Higher taxon surrogacy; Macrobenthos; Northeast Atlantic; Species genus ratio; Taxonomic sufficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917732292     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maec.12100     Document Type: Article

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