Hierarchical drivers of reef-fish metacommunity structure
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Hierarchical drivers of reef-fish metacommunity structure.
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...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0012-9658
DOI: 10.1890/07-0487.1