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What accounts for the higher coral species diversity in the Pacific and Indian Oceans compared to the Atlantic?
 
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Tropical areas of the Atlantic tend to have cooler waters and more turbid conditions due to runoff from land. As a result, only those corals that are adapted to withstand such conditions will survive in these waters. In addition, the Indo-Pacific region is much older geologically and covers a larger area. This means that species have had more time to evolve in these waters and there are many more niches in which the species can evolve, resulting in a much greater species diversity in the Indo-Pacific regions
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