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Number of Stony Coral Species by Marine Ecoregion
Nov 8, 2011
(Last modified Jan 13, 2016)
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- Number of stony coral species, by marine ecoregion.
Stony coral range maps have been drawn by Veron (2000), who kindly made available to us range maps for 794 species. We laid these range maps over the ecoregions to derive a species total for each ecoregion. Note that these stony corals have a wider range than coral reefs. The large physical structures of coral reefs only develop where such corals survive in sufficient densities (and usually diversity) over the long time scales it takes for such structures to form.
These data were derived by The Nature Conservancy, and were displayed in a map published in The Atlas of Global Conservation (Hoekstra et al., University of California Press, 2010). More information at http://nature.org/atlas.
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Veron, J. E. N. 2000. Corals of the World. Townsville: Australian Institute of Marine Science.
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- The Nature Conservancy
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- Citation:
- Hoekstra, J. M., J. L. Molnar, M. Jennings, C. Revenga, M. D. Spalding, T. M. Boucher, J. C. Robertson, T. J. Heibel, with K. Ellison. 2010. The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Make a Difference. Ed. J. L. Molnar. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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- The Nature Conservancy
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Timothy Boucher
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.
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TNC GIS Staff
GIS staff with The Nature Conservancy
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