Hierarchical scaling of biodiversity in lagoon ecosystems
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Lagoons are habitat islands in the coastal landscapes characterised by both among ecosystems 1 heterogeneity, due to different terrestrial-freshwater, freshwater-marine interfaces, and within ecosystem heterogeneity, due patchy spatial and temporal distribution of biotic and abiotic
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