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Science 25 May 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5521, pp. 1493 - 1495
DOI: 10.1126/science.1061690
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Coral Reef Biodiversity--Habitat Size Matters

Nancy Knowlton

Ecologists have long realized that the biodiversity of coral reef species declines dramatically with increasing distance from the epicenter of diversity in the Indo-Australian Pacific. In her Perspective, Knowlton discusses a new analysis by Bellwood and Hughes that reveals the importance of habitat area in maintaining diversity, a finding that underscores the need for reef conservation.

The author is with the Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093-0202, USA and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama. E-mail: nknowlton{at}ucsd.edu

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