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. 2016 Sep 16;113(40):11261–11265. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1602480113

Table S2.

Classification of regions (see Fig. S1)

Region ID Region
N_AMER North America (excluding Hawaii)
HAWAII Hawaii
CEN_AMER Central America (including the Caribbean)
GALAP Galapagos
S_AMER South America (excluding Galapagos)
AFRI Africa (excluding islands listed below)
W_AFRI_IS West African islands (Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Sao Tome, Equatorial Guinea)
MADA Madagascar region (Madagascar, Comoros, Mayotte, Seychelles, Mauritius, Reunion Islands)
EUR Europe
ASIA_EW Asia (excluding Southeast Asia)
SE_ASIA Southeast Asia (including Christmas Island)
AUS Australia (Australia, excluding Christmas Island, Macquarie Island, and Heard and McDonald Islands)
MICRO Micro-/Mela-/Polynesia
NZ New Zealand (excluding sub-Antarctic islands)
AMSTER Amsterdam and St. Paul Islands
SUB_ANT Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands (Antipodes, Auckland, Bounty, Bouvet, Campbell, Crozet, Heard and McDonald, Kerguelen, Macquarie, Prince Edward, South Georgia, South Sandwich, Snares)
StHEL St. Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
MULTI Species occurs within multiple regions.

Items in column 1 refer to the region IDs used in Dataset S1. We did not include the nonbreeding ranges of pelagic seabirds and turtles in regional classifications.