Biodiversity Features

Atlas of the Biodiversity Features in the Coral Triangle. This atlas provides comprehensive data on the region's marine protected areas and biodiversity features including biogenic habitat, habitat rugosity, species richness, distribution of threatened and endemic species, areas important for sea turtle. This tool also provides a dataset of threats to the marine environment (anthropogenic and climate change induced pressure), and of environmental characteristics of the region including physical, and biochemical oceanography.

This map provides data described in: Asaad, I., Lundquist,C.J., Erdmann, M.V., & Costello, M.J. (2018). An Interactive atlas for marine biodiversity conservation in the Coral Triangle

Please acknowledge and refer to the original citations of data sources .

This map, Biodiversity Features, comprised of four types of data: (A) Distribution of marine protected areas, (B) seven layers biodiversity features, (C) two types of threat, and (D) 16 environmental variables.

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The original citations of data sources

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