Dominance in Marine Ecosystems
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 118 (2), 262-274
- https://doi.org/10.1086/283818
Abstract
The hypothesis that species-rich communities have more equal distributions of relative abundance than species-poor communites (MacArthur 1969) was tested with data from quantitative samples of marine [macrofauna and flora] communities. The opposite apparently is true and there is a significant tendency for numerical dominance of common species to be greater in species-rich than species-poor communities. Dominance-weighted diversity indices, which are postulated on a negative correlation between species richness and dominance, should thus be cautiously interpreted.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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