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Journal Article
Patterns and processes in reef fish diversity
2003
Overview
A central aim of ecology is to explain the heterogeneous distribution of biodiversity on earth. As expectations of diversity loss grow
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, this understanding is also critical for effective management and conservation. Although explanations for biodiversity patterns are still a matter for intense debate
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. At large geographical scales, biogeographers have suggested that variation in species richness results from factors such as area, temperature, environmental stability, and geological processes, among many others
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. From the species pools generated by these large-scale processes, community ecologists have suggested that local-scale assembly of communities is achieved through processes such as competition, predation, recruitment, disturbances and immigration
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. Here we analyse hypotheses on speciation and dispersal for reef fish from the Indian and Pacific oceans and show how dispersal from a major centre of origination can simultaneously account for both large-scale gradients in species richness and the structure of local communities.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing,Nature Publishing Group
