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Marine species richness is bimodal with latitude: A reply to Fernandez and Marques
Chaudhary, C.; Saeedi, H.; Costello, M.J. (2017). Marine species richness is bimodal with latitude: A reply to Fernandez and Marques. Trends Ecol. Evol. 32(4): 234–237. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.02.007
In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Elsevier Science: Amsterdam. ISSN 0169-5347; e-ISSN 1872-8383
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  • Chaudhary, C.
  • Saeedi, H.
  • Costello, M.J.
Abstract
    Our review of the literature and available data on latitudinal gradients in marine species richness found that in all previous studies, and for a dataset of 65 000 species, they were bimodal, with a dip in richness immediately south of the Equator (−5° to −15°) [1]. This was the case for benthic and pelagic, vertebrate and invertebrate, and all species together.
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