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Nestedness and species replacement along bathymetric gradients in the deep sea reflect productivity: a test with polychaete assemblages in the oligotrophic north‐west Gulf of Mexico |
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| Authors: | Carol T. Stuart Solange Brault Gilbert T. Rowe Chih‐Lin Wei Martine Wagstaff Craig R. McClain Michael A. Rex |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA;2. Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX, USA;3. Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan;4. Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA |
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| Keywords: | deep sea Gulf of Mexico nestedness niche requirements POC flux polychaetes source‐sink dynamics β ‐diversity |