Different measures of biodiversity

John R. Dolan ()
Additional contact information
John R. Dolan: Marine Microbial Ecology Group, Laboratoire de Océanographie de Villefranche, Université de Paris VI et CNRS UMR 7093 Station Zoologique

Nature, 2005, vol. 433, issue 7024, E9-E9

Abstract: Abstract Arising from: X. Irigoien, J. Huisman & R. P. Harris Nature 429, 863–867 (2004); see also reply from Irigoien et al. In their analysis of global trends of diversity in marine plankton, Irigoien et al.1 find that taxonomic diversity of zooplankton (consumer) is a unimodal function of community biomass that is unrelated to phytoplankton (producer) diversity. Their results are unexpected because in terrestrial organisms primary-producer diversity is a good predictor of consumer diversity2. I contend that this apparent uncoupling of producer and consumer diversity in marine plankton is likely to be an artefact due to the authors' use of different measures of diversity for producers and for consumers.

Date: 2005
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03320 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:433:y:2005:i:7024:d:10.1038_nature03320

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/nature03320

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().