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Dissecting latitudinal diversity gradients: functional groups and clades of marine bivalves.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Feb 2000
Roy K, Jablonski D, Valentine J W
Abstract excerpt
The latitudinal diversity gradient, with maximum taxonomic richness in the tropics, is widely accepted as being pervasive on land, but the existence of this pattern in the sea has been surprisingly controversial. This is partly due to Thorson's influential claim that the normal latitudinal diversity gradient occurs in marine epifauna (taxa living on the surface of the substratum) but not in infauna (burrowing or...
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