β-diversity of deep-sea holothurians and asteroids along a bathymetric gradient (NE Atlantic)
Measuring and understanding patterns of ?-diversity remain major challenges in community ecology. Recently, ?-diversity has been shown to consist of 2 distinct components: (1) spatial turnover and (2) species loss leading to nestedness. Both components structure deep-sea macrofaunal assemblages but...
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2014-08-04.
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