The map shows the delineation of Longhurst Biogeochemical Provinces with locations of sediment trap deployments indicated by gray dots. The original EPS format (size: 1.5 MB) is available as well as a smaller PDF file (size: 260 KB).

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Longhurst A., Sathyendranath, S., Platt, T. and Caverhill, C. 1995, An estimate of global primary production in the ocean from satellite radiometer data. Jour. Plankton Res., 17, 1245-1277.

Global Biogeochemical Domains and Provinces after Longhurst et al., 1995.
Domains	Biogeochemical Provinces		Moorings	Traps
Polar Domain	BPLA	Boreal Polar	7	9
	ARCT	Atlantic Arctic	14	35
	SARC	Atlantic Subarctic	1	1
	BERS	North Pacific Epicontinental Seas	3	8
	ANTA	Antarctic	14	30
	APLR	Austral Polar	12	14
Westerlies Domain	NADR	North Atlantic Drift	14	30
	GFST	Gulf Stream
	NAST	North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre (West and East)	22	33
	MEDI	Mediterranean	6	10
	PSAG-W	Pacific Subarctic	12	24
	PSAG-E	Pacific Subarctic	14	28
	KURO	Kuroshio Current	17	35
	NPPF	North Pacific Polar Front
	NPST-W	North Pacific Subtropical Gyre-West
	NPST-E	North Pacific Subtropical Gyre-East
	OCAL	Offshore California Current	12	12
	TASM	TASMAN SEA
	SPSG	South Pacific Subtropical Gyre
	SSTC	South Subtropical Convergence
	SANT	Subantarctic	4	7
Trade Wind Domain	NATR	North Atlantic Tropical Gyre
	WTRA	Western Tropical Atlantic	1	1
	ETRA	Eastern Tropical Atlantic	20	33
	CARB	Caribbean
	SATL	South Atlantic Tropical Gyre	6	7
	MONS	Indian Ocean Monsoon Gyres	6	6
	ISSG	Indian Ocean South Subtropical Gyre
	NPTG	North Pacific Tropical Gyre	6	20
	PNEC	North Pacific Equatorial Countercurrent	13	26
	PEQD	Pacific Equatorial Divergence	3	10
	WARM	Western Pacific Warm Pool	10	17
	ARCH	Western Pacific Archipelagic Deep Basin
Coastal Domain	NECS	Northwest Atlantic Continental Shelf
	NWCS	Northwest Atlantic Continental Shelf
	CNRY	Canary Current Coastal
	GUIN	Guinea Current Coastal
	GUIA	Guiana Current Coastal
	BRAZ	Brazil Current Coastal
	FKLD	Southwest Atlantic Continental Shelf
	BENG	Benguela Current Coastal
	REDS	Red Sea and Persian Gulf
	ARAB	Northwest Arabian Upwelling	5	14
	EAFR	East Africa Coastal
	INDE	Eastern India Continental Shelf	1	1
	INDW	Western India Continental Shelf
	AUSW	Australia-India Coastal
	ALSK	Alaska Downwelling Coastal
	CCAL	California Upwelling Coastal
	CAMR	Central American Coastal	5	7
	CHIL	Chile-Peru Current Coastal	2	3
	CHIN	China Seas	2	3
	SUND	Sunda-Arafura Seas Coastal
	AUSE	Eastern Australia Coastal
	NEWZ	New Zealand Coastal
Totals			232	424