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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
What determines the likelihood of species discovery in marine holozooplankton: Is size, range or depth important?
Oikos, Volume 109, No. 3, Year 2005
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Description
The relationship between date of first description and size, geographic range and depth of occurrence is investigated for 18 orders of marine holozooplankton (comprising over 4000 species). Results of multiple regression analyses suggest that all attributes are linked, which reflects the complex interplay between them. Partial correlation coefficients suggest that geographic range is the most important predictor of description date, and shows an inverse relationship. By contrast, size is generally a poor indicator of description date, which probably mirrors the size-independent way in which specimens are collected, though there is clearly a positive relationship between both size and depth (for metabolic/trophic reasons), and size and geographic range. There is also a positive relationship between geographic range and depth that probably reflects the near constant nature of the deep-water environment and the wide-ranging currents to be found there. Although we did not explicitly incorporate either abundance or location into models predicting the date of first description, neither should be ignored. Copyright © Oikos 2005.
Authors & Co-Authors
Gibbons, Mark J.
South Africa, Bellville
University of the Western Cape
United Kingdom, London
The Natural History Museum, London
Richardson, Anthony J.
United Kingdom, Plymouth
Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science
Angel, Martin V.
United Kingdom, Southampton
National Oceanography Centre Southampton
Buecher, Emmanuelle
South Africa, Bellville
University of the Western Cape
Esnal, Graciela B.
Argentina, Buenos Aires
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Fernandez Alamo, Maria A.
Mexico, Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Gibson, Ray
United Kingdom, Liverpool
Liverpool John Moores University
Itoh, Hiroshi
Unknown Affiliation
Pugh, Phil
United Kingdom, Southampton
National Oceanography Centre Southampton
Boettger-Schnack, Ruth
Unknown Affiliation
Thuesen, Erik
United States, Olympia
Evergreen State College
Statistics
Citations: 29
Authors: 11
Affiliations: 8
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13754.x
ISSN:
00301299
Research Areas
Environmental
Noncommunicable Diseases