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| Macneil, M. Aaron; Graham, Nicholas A. J.; Polunin, Nicholas V. C.; Kulbicki, Michel; Galzin, Rene; Harmelin-vivien, Mireille; Rushton, Steven P.. |
| Coral reefs are highly complex ecological systems, where multiple processes interact across scales in space and time to create assemblages of exceptionally high biodiversity. Despite the increasing frequency of hierarchically structured sampling programs used in coral-reef science, little progress has been made in quantifying the relative importance of processes operating across multiple scales. The vast majority of reef studies are conducted, or at least analyzed, at a single spatial scale, ignoring the implicitly hierarchical structure of the overall system in favor of small-scale experiments or large-scale observations. Here we demonstrate how alpha (mean local number of species), beta diversity (degree of species dissimilarity among local sites), and... |
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Palavras-chave: Alpha; Beta; And gamma diversity biodiversity coral reefs ecological scales habitat structure mixed-effects models multiple working hypotheses; Reef-fish biomass species abundance species richness. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00207/31782/30195.pdf |
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