It includes a number of oceanic islands and oceanic island groups like the Galápagos Islands, Revillagigedo Islands, Cocos Island, and Clipperton Island. Clipperton has been labelled as a meeting point between the Oceanian realm and the Tropical Eastern Pacific realm.[2] The Galápagos Islands are also believed to have much higher percentages of Indo-West Pacific species in their marine faunas when compared to the continental American coasts.[3][4] A 2018 study revealed interconnectivity of species between the Line Islands, Hawaii and Clipperton, as well as interconnectivity between the Galápagos Islands and Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia.[5] The study identified the Northern Galápagos Islands as a "critical stepping-stone connecting the Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific."[5]
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^ abRomero-Torres, Mauricio; Treml, Eric A.; Acosta, Alberto; Paz-García, David A. (19 June 2018). "The Eastern Tropical Pacific coral population connectivity and the role of the Eastern Pacific Barrier". Scientific Reports. 8 (1): 9354. Bibcode:2018NatSR...8.9354R. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-27644-2. PMC6008413. PMID 29921956.
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tropical, eastern, pacific, twelve, marine, realms, that, cover, coastal, waters, continental, shelves, world, oceans, extends, along, pacific, coast, americas, from, southern, baja, california, peninsula, north, northern, peru, south, bounded, north, temperat. The Tropical Eastern Pacific is one of the twelve marine realms that cover the coastal waters and continental shelves of the world s oceans The Tropical Eastern Pacific extends along the Pacific Coast of the Americas from the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula in the north to northern Peru in the south It is bounded on the north by the Temperate Northern Pacific realm and on the south by the Temperate South America realm 1 School of goatfish off the coast of the Galapagos Islands EcuadorIt includes a number of oceanic islands and oceanic island groups like the Galapagos Islands Revillagigedo Islands Cocos Island and Clipperton Island Clipperton has been labelled as a meeting point between the Oceanian realm and the Tropical Eastern Pacific realm 2 The Galapagos Islands are also believed to have much higher percentages of Indo West Pacific species in their marine faunas when compared to the continental American coasts 3 4 A 2018 study revealed interconnectivity of species between the Line Islands Hawaii and Clipperton as well as interconnectivity between the Galapagos Islands and Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia 5 The study identified the Northern Galapagos Islands as a critical stepping stone connecting the Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific 5 The WWF and Nature Conservancy divide the Tropical Eastern Pacific realm into two marine provinces Tropical East Pacific and Galapagos which are further subdivided into marine ecoregions 1 Ecoregions editTropical East Pacific Marine Province Revillagigedos Clipperton Mexican Tropical Pacific Chiapas Nicaragua Nicoya Cocos Island Panama Bight Guayaquil Galapagos Marine Province Northern Galapagos Islands Eastern Galapagos Islands Western Galapagos IslandsReferences edit a b Spalding Mark D Fox Helen E Allen Gerald R Davidson Nick Ferdana Zach A Finlayson Max Halpern Benjamin S Jorge Miguel A Lombana Al Lourie Sara A Martin Kirsten D McManus Edmund Molnar Jennifer Recchia Cheri A Robertson James 1 July 2007 Marine Ecoregions of the World A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas BioScience 57 7 573 583 doi 10 1641 B570707 S2CID 29150840 Robertson D Ross Allen Gerald R 1996 Zoogeography of the shorefish fauna of Clipperton Atoll Coral Reefs 15 2 121 131 Bibcode 1996CorRe 15 121R doi 10 1007 BF01771902 hdl 10088 19435 S2CID 41906452 Robertson Robert 1977 Heliacus trochoides An Indo West Pacific Architectonicid Newly Found in the Eastern Pacific Mainland Ecuador The Veliger 19 1 13 18 Brusca Richard C 1 September 1987 Biogeographic Relationships of Galapagos Marine Isopod Crustaceans Bulletin of Marine Science 41 2 268 281 a b Romero Torres Mauricio Treml Eric A Acosta Alberto Paz Garcia David A 19 June 2018 The Eastern Tropical Pacific coral population connectivity and the role of the Eastern Pacific Barrier Scientific Reports 8 1 9354 Bibcode 2018NatSR 8 9354R doi 10 1038 s41598 018 27644 2 PMC 6008413 PMID 29921956 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tropical Eastern Pacific amp oldid 1079190776, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
