Variation in species diversity of deep-water megafauna assemblages in the Caribbean across depth and ecoregions.

Diversity patterns of the deep-sea megafauna in the Caribbean Basin and the Guiana ecoregion were analyzed in order to test the hypothesis of species richness variation as a function of depth and the hypothesis of non-differences between ecoregions by analyzing spatial patterns of five taxa and a me...

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Main Authors: Iván Hernández-Ávila, Edlin Guerra-Castro, Carolina Bracho, Martin Rada, Frank A Ocaña, Daniel Pech
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6070233?pdf=render