Biological diversity of fish communities: pattern and process§
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Biological diversity of fish communities: pattern and process.
For over 150 years, ecologists have been striving to explain fundamental patterns of biological diversity, such as the observation that communities invariably consist of common and rare species, and to unravel the processes that underpin these patterns. This task is increasingly urgent given the accelerating loss of biological diversity. Although fishes are the most diverse vertebrate taxon and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Fish Biology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0022-1112
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.03091.x