Authors
Timothy J Langlois, Ben T Radford, Kimberley P Van Niel, Jessica J Meeuwig, Alan F Pearce, Cecile SG Rousseaux, Gary A Kendrick, Euan S Harvey
Publication date
2012/9
Journal
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Volume
21
Issue
9
Pages
886-897
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Description
Aim Macroecological theory predicts that along direct physiological gradients there will be unimodal abundance distributions of species and consistent rates of assemblage turnover. However, the majority of marine studies that have investigated the realized distribution of species along latitudinal or temperature gradients have generally found unimodal distributions to be rare. We assess fish distributions along a temperature gradient in a stable oligotrophic seascape and suggest that unimodal distributions will be more common.
Location Nearshore demersal fish habitat extending 1500 km along the coast of south‐western Australia.
Methods The relative abundances of demersal fish species were sampled off the coast of south‐western Australia along a temperature gradient. The confounding influence of other environmental variables was tested, and the assemblage was found to be highly correlated with …
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