Fig. 3: Region-to-region connections summarised from the MiCO system for four taxonomic groups: seabirds (top left), sea turtles (top right), marine mammals (bottom left), fishes (bottom right). | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Region-to-region connections summarised from the MiCO system for four taxonomic groups: seabirds (top left), sea turtles (top right), marine mammals (bottom left), fishes (bottom right).

From: Marine megavertebrate migrations connect the global ocean

Fig. 3

Shades indicate the key regional groups: Africa (red), the Americas (green), Asia (orange), Europe (blue), Oceania/Antarctica (purple), and Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (grey). Note that because start-end locations of movement were summarised rather than complete telemetry tracks, these diagrams do not include links to regions through which animals transited, and as such represent minimum linkages. Data and code to reproduce chord diagrams can be found at https://zenodo.org/records/14873514 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14873514). Species silhouettes from PhyloPic (https://www.phylopic.org), individual image contributors are: Wandering albatross, Alexandre Vong (2023, CC0 1.0); Green turtle, Edwin Price (2023, CC0 1.0); Humpback whale, Guillame Dera (2023, CC0 1.0); Albacore tuna, Felix Vaux (2021, CC0 1.0).

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