Table 4 High energy availability coastal areas percentage for each realm

From: Seasonality of primary production explains the richness of pioneering benthic communities

Realms

# High energy availability points

# Total random points

% High energy availability

Temperate Australasia

865

7181

12.05

Tropical Atlantic

1866

15,664

11.91

Tropical Eastern Pacific

256

2700

9.48

Western Indo-Pacific

1403

18,354

7.64

Central Indo-Pacific

2727

40,367

6.76

Temperate Northern Pacific

1076

27,043

3.98

Temperate South America

301

12,607

2.39

Temperate Northern Atlantic

989

42,904

2.31

Temperate Southern Africa

21

1164

1.8

Arctic

0

89,340

0

Eastern Indo-Pacific

0

3609

0

Southern Ocean

0

25,910

0

  1. Percentage of random points falling on high energy availability areas (low seasonality–high magnitude of production) for each realm, according to Spalding et al.24.