Coral Geographic

A website tool for planning, managing, monitoring and research. On global, regional and marine protected area scales. Contains all geographic and taxonomic information about corals linked to all supporting data. Produces interlinked GIS maps, statistical analyses and data reports.


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Ecoregions of the world, delineated on the basis of known internal faunal
and/or environmental uniformity and external distinctiveness from neighbouring regions.

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Global biodiversity of zooxanthellate corals. Colours indicate total species richness.

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Ecoregions and species richness of zooxanthellate corals of the Coral Triangle.

Coral geographic is designed to:

  • integrate all biogeographic and taxonomic knowledge of corals,
  • link major ecological and environmental datasets,
  • be capable of linking to datasets about reefs and other reef biota.
Public release of Coral Geographic has been suspended pending necessary funding.