Global reef fish richness gradients emerge from divergent and scale-dependent component changes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 284, Issue 1867, 2017, Pages

  Blowes, Shane A ^a,b   Belmaker, Jonathan ^a   Chase, Jonathan M ^b,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeography; Macroecology

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; MACROECOLOGY; REEF; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORAL REEF; FISH; GEOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 85034436120     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0947     Document Type: Article

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