Additive partitioning of coral reef fish diversity across hierarchical spatial scales throughout the Caribbean.

There is an increasing need to examine regional patterns of diversity in coral-reef systems since their biodiversity is declining globally. In this sense, additive partitioning might be useful since it quantifies the contribution of alpha and beta to total diversity across different scales. We appli...

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Main Authors: Vanessa Francisco-Ramos, Jesús Ernesto Arias-González
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3808286?pdf=render