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Temperate hotspots

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The inclusion of abundance data in global surveys of reef fishes reveals new hotspots of functional biodiversity, not all of which show high species richness. The findings may influence conservation priorities. See Letter p.539

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Figure 1: Sea surveys.

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  1. Derek P. Tittensor is at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, the Microsoft Research Computational Science Laboratory, Cambridge, and the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK.,

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