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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.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>", "summary": "Number of stony coral species, by Marine Ecoregion of the World (MEOW).", "title": "Number_of_Stony_Coral_Species_by_Marine_Ecoregion", "tags": [ "Marine Ecoregions", "Stony Coral Species", "Coral Reefs." ], "type": "", "typeKeywords": [], "thumbnail": "", "url": "", "minScale": 150000000, "maxScale": 5000, "spatialReference": "", "accessInformation": "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.", "licenseInfo": "" }