Research article

Diversity is maintained by seasonal variation in species abundance

Hideyasu Shimadzu¹², Maria Dornelas¹³^*, Peter A Henderson⁴ and Anne E Magurran¹

¹ Centre for Biological Diversity and Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TH, UK

² Department of Mathematics, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi Kohoku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan

³ CESAM, Department of Biology, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

⁴ Pisces Conservation, IRC House, The Square, Pennington, Lymington, Hants SO41 8GN, UK

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BMC Biology 2013, 11:98 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-11-98

Published: 4 September 2013

Additional file 1:

Diversity is maintained by seasonal variation in species abundance. Additional information concerning the cluster analysis of seasonal variation.