[Coral-List] Source for "coral occupy <1% of the seafloor but house more than 25% of species" (Hanny Rivera)

[David Obura]

Hi Hanny,

great to have your pointers on this as I’ve wondered about it too … and thanks for the citations … but what did you actually conclude/say about this? Very useful to have an opinion from someone that has looked into it,

best,

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On 14 Dec 2020, 21:01 +0300, coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov, wrote:
>
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 at 17:53, Hanny Rivera via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > A while back, I had written asking for help tracking down the source for
> > this statement. Thank you to all who responded and helped! There were a
> > number of folks who also asked me to let them know what I found. Sorry for
> > the long delay! A recent twitter post reminded me I hadn't followed up.
> >
> > Anyways: The original reference (at least the most original that I could
> > find) is McAllister 1991. I had to do a lot of digging to find the actual
> > paper, though I finally came across it here:
> > https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ptid=uc1.31822009136755&view=1up&seq=22
> > As you might see, it's not entirely clear where the numbers come from
> > though.
> >
> > Dan Barshis
> > had pointed me to Smith 1978 (https://www.nature.com/articles/273225a0) as
> > a more viable source for the area estimation (though it's a bit outdated)
> > and
> > Fisher et al 2015 (
> > https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214016236) as a
> > reference for species richness on reefs.
> >
> > A more recent area estimate is Spalding et al. 2001 (
> > https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X17300635) which
> > was pointed out to me by Dennis Allemand
> >
> > Dennis Allemand also has several other references for species #s that live
> > on reefs in his paper (
> >
> > https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352485518305978?via%3Dihub
> > )
> > on page 2.
> >
> > Thanks again all! Hope this is helpful for folks going forward.
> >
> > Best, Hanny