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. 2014 May 27;1:140007. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2014.7

Table 1. Summary of taxonomic richness and abundance information by ecoregion.

Ecoregion Transects (Sites) Taxa (total) Taxa (mean) Abundance (mean) Ecoregion Transects (Sites) Taxa (total) Taxa (mean) Abundance (mean)
Mean values relate to 500 m2 transect areas, and abundance is the summed abundance of all taxa recorded within each transect.                  
Adriatic Sea 4 (2) 14 9 219 Manning-Hawkesbury 246 (130) 263 21 1291
Agulhas Bank 24 (11) 37 9 264 Marquesas 9 (7) 112 48 3042
Arnhem Coast to Gulf of Carpenteria 16 (8) 100 29 651 Nicoya 171 (90) 144 25 2316
Azores Canaries Madeira 100 (44) 60 10 693 Ningaloo 54 (30) 271 46 1005
Bassian 472 (227) 155 7 268 North and East Barents Sea 3 (2) 5 2 5
Bismarck Sea 10 (10) 250 84 5578 North Patagonian Gulfs 14 (9) 9 4 222
Bonaparte Coast 23 (16) 100 19 451 North Sea 12 (6) 15 5 186
Cape Howe 458 (171) 232 18 1029 Northeastern New Zealand 209 (102) 79 12 868
Celtic Seas 15 (8) 22 5 110 Northern and Central Red Sea 13 (13) 146 54 4195
Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef 120 (53) 548 50 2368 Northern California 14 (8) 30 12 117
Central Kuroshio Current 15 (9) 80 20 1159 Oyashio Current 6 (5) 9 2 150
Channels and Fjords of Southern Chile 10 (8) 7 2 4 Panama Bight 74 (40) 126 27 2425
Chiapas-Nicaragua 22 (14) 78 23 456 Phoenix/Tokelau/Northern Cook Islands 24 (12) 138 41 3266
Chiloense 15 (9) 7 3 253 Puget Trough/Georgia Basin 15 (8) 21 7 166
Cocos Islands 42 (23) 93 29 2068 Rapa-Pitcairn 6 (5) 96 43 1039
Cocos-Keeling/Christmas Island 15 (15) 231 66 3823 Samoa Islands 48 (25) 247 39 1112
Coral Sea 36 (18) 341 58 759 Sea of Japan/East Sea 10 (6) 17 4 278
East African Coral Coast 9 (9) 176 53 1160 Seychelles 13 (12) 183 59 1064
East Greenland Shelf 2 (1) 2 2 2 Shark Bay 7 (6) 107 38 2583
Easter Island 27 (17) 44 18 492 Society Islands 21 (17) 202 50 1068
Eastern Brazil 21 (10) 50 22 712 Solomon Archipelago 5 (5) 217 100 7505
Exmouth to Broome 55 (27) 303 41 1503 South Australian Gulfs 162 (58) 92 13 349
Fiji Islands 17 (9) 181 42 652 South Kuroshio 9 (8) 193 57 1088
Floridian 32 (17) 117 36 1433 Southern California Bight 23 (7) 36 13 364
Greater Antilles 3 (1) 49 32 957 Southern Caribbean 14 (14) 88 39 4656
Guayaquil 19 (15) 69 24 636 Southern Cook/Austral Islands 26 (15) 195 43 1225
Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy 3 (2) 1 1 93 Southwestern Caribbean 59 (22) 140 33 1003
Gulf of Thailand 7 (7) 101 38 2165 Three Kings-North Cape 13 (6) 30 11 366
Hawaii 11 (9) 90 26 234 Tonga Islands 42 (30) 336 48 1048
Houtman 70 (31) 146 18 478 Torres Strait Northern Great Barrier Reef 36 (18) 340 70 3190
Kermadec Island 29 (14) 56 21 1400 Tuamotus 59 (52) 318 60 2658
Leeuwin 151 (69) 179 20 854 Tweed-Moreton 80 (37) 365 33 1485
Lesser Sunda 11 (11) 292 86 4274 Vanuatu 1 (1) 68 68 837
Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands 223 (97) 350 28 1084 Western Bassian 7 (6) 23 9 49
Maldives 12 (12) 198 68 1607 Western Mediterranean 52 (28) 57 12 623
Malvinas/Falklands 5 (5) 7 3 15 Western Sumatra 52 (30) 347 69 2468