Biodiversity enhances reef fish biomass and resistance to climate change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 6230-6235

  Duffy, J Emmett ^a   Lefcheck, Jonathan S ^b   Stuart Smith, Rick D ^c   Navarrete, Sergio A ^d   Edgar, Graham J ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Fisheries; Functional diversity; Global change; Macroecology; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CARNIVORE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FISH; FISHING; GLOBAL CHANGE; HEAT TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM FOREST; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84973100804     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1524465113     Document Type: Article

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