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| BROITMAN,BERNARDO R; VÉLIZ,FREDY; MANZUR,TATIANA; WIETERS,EVIE A; RANDALL FINKE,G; FORNES,PAULINA A; VALDIVIA,NELSON; NAVARRETE,SERGIO A. |
| Along the coast of central Chile, geographic trends of diversity have been inferred from literature compilations and museum collections based on species range limits for some taxonomic groups. However, spatially-intensive field-based assessments of macrobenthic species richness are largely missing. Over the course of a multiyear study (1998-2005), we characterized latitudinal patterns of rocky intertidal diversity at 18 sites along the coast of central Chile (29-36° S). At each site, the number of sessile and mobile macrobenthic species was quantified in 0.25 m² quadrats. Two estimators of local (alpha) diversity were used: observed local species richness, calculated from the asymptote of a species-rarefaction curve, and the Chao2 index, which takes into... |
| Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Biological diversity; Intertidal ecology; Latitudinal diversity gradient; Species richness. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2011000100011 |
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