Title: Large-scale patterns of species diversity in the deep-sea benthos
Abstract: As in other environments, species diversity in the deep sea reflects an integration of ecological and evolutionary processes operating at different spatial and temporal scales. Contemporary deep-sea research has focused primarily on the importance of small-scale phenomena that permit species coexistence. While this work has provided important insights into the mechanisms that regulate local diversity, it is unclear how small-scale events can account for geographic patterns of diversity. A complete understanding of diversity must incorporate the influence of historical, biogeographic and oceanographic processes that are imposed at much larger scales. In this chapter, we review large-scale bathymetric and geographic patterns of species diversity in the deep-sea benthos and discuss how ecological and evolutionary factors might shape these patterns.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-12-11
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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