Local and regional rarity in a diverse tropical fish assemblage
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Local and regional rarity in a diverse tropical fish assemblage
Because most species in an ecological assemblage are rare, much of the species richness we value is due to taxa with few individuals or a restricted distribution. It has been apparent since the time of ecological pioneers such as Bates and Darwin that tropical systems have disproportionately large numbers of rare species, yet the distribution and abundance patterns of these species remain large...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2076