Spatial patterns of benthic diversity in molluscs from

• Main Authors: Cristian Aldea, Celia Olabarria, Jesús S. Troncoso
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Key words; alpha; beta and gamma diversity; Bellingshausen Sea; bivalves; gastropods; rare species; South Shetland Islands; Antarctic; Bray; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.548.7639; http://webs.uvigo.es/colabarria/papers/ANS 201.pdf

Abstract: Despite several works that have documented patterns of diversity in deep sea organisms, trends of diversity and the processes responsible for such trends still remain unclear. To date very few studies have documented the effects of variables such as latitude and longitude in deep-sea organ...