Data for: Patterns of diversity of Brazilian reef fish fauna
Description
Reef fish communities were assessed using visual census techniques across 100 reefs spanning over 2.000 km of coastline. Each reef was considered a sample unit and species densities per 100 m² was used for calculating true diversity measures. Diversity patterns were investigated using “true diversity” measures (sensu Jost 2006), considering the effective number of species equal to Hill numbers (qD). Values in dataset correspond to number of effective species per reef (α diversity, Dα), for q = 0, 1 and 2, using sampled area as weights. Each line represents a reef, labeled by a Code, followed by Brazilian State, Location name, Latitude, Longitude and Source of the species data. Predictors used for adjusting GLMs are presented next: Reef morphotype (categorical predictor), with five levels corresponding to Brazilian reef morphological structures (cemented terraces, fringing, patch, bank and pinnacle reefs, see Appendix S1 for a detailed description). Depth, as the average depth of the reef in meters, measured in situ, isolation, as the linear distance between the reef to the nearest point in mainland, are also presented.