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GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 423-431Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2001.00245.x
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Brazil; distribution patterns; diversity; environmental factors; macroecology; oceanic islands; reef fishes; South Atlantic; zoogeography
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The species composition of reef-fish assemblages from nine Brazilian major coastal sites and four oceanic islands are compared. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) was utilized to identify groups of sites based on similarity of composition, and to correlate environmental trends with such groups. Five distinct groups of sites were recognized: (1) the South and South-eastern coastal reefs (from Guarapari Islands to Santa Catarina, the southernmost Brazilian reefs); (2) the North-eastern coast (extending from the Manuel Luis Reefs to Abrolhos Archipelago); (3) Trindade Island; (4) Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas; and (5) St Paul's Rocks. Water temperature, coral richness, distance from mainland, primary production and shelf width strongly correlated with the diversity and composition of the reef sites.
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