Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Bates, Amanda E., Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Duffy, J. Emmett, Baker, Susan C., Thomson, Russell J., Stuart-Smith, Jemina F., Hill, Nicole A., Kininmonth, Stuart J., Airoldi, Laura, Becerro, Mikel, Campbell, Stuart J., Dawson, Terence P., Navarrete, Sergio A., Soler, German, Strain, Elisabeth M. A., Willis, Trevor J., Edgar, Graham J.
• Other Authors: University of Tasmania, Australian Research Council, Australian Government, National Geographic Society, Wildlife Conservation Society
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2013
• Subjects: Food Webs; Macroecology; Biology; Conservation; Antarctic; Barrett; Davey; Pacific; Antarc*; Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/178580; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12529; https://doi.org/10.13039/100006363; https://doi.org/10.13039/100005997; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000923

Species richness has dominated our view of global biodiversity patterns for centuries1,2. The dominance of this paradigm is reflected in the focus by ecologists and conservation managers on richness and associated occurrence-based measures for understanding drivers of broad-scale diversity patterns...