NEW TAXONOMY AND NICHE PARTITIONING ON CORAL REEDS - JACK OF ALL TRADES OR MASTER OF SOME

被引：136

作者：

KNOWLTON, N

JACKSON, JBC

机构：

[1] Nancy Knowlton and Jeremy Jackson are at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa

来源：

TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION | 1994年 / 9卷 / 01期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1016/0169-5347(94)90224-0

中图分类号：

Q14 [生态学（生物生态学）];

学科分类号：

071012 ; 0713 ;

摘要：

Recent taxonomic advances are challenging widely held theories of the ecology and evolution of coral reef invertebrates and communities. large numbers of sibling species have been discovered across a variety of higher taxa. Differences in distribution, behavior and life history characteristics among sibling species demonstrate that niche diversification is more finely tuned, and interactions among organisms more specific, than most reef ecologists believed previously. Ecological and evolutionary understanding depends on good taxonomy.

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