Figure 1.
New natural products from marine invertebrate phyla.
Cumulative number of new natural products discovered from different marine invertebrate phyla from 1990 to 2009 (Group “Other phyla” include Annelida, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Hemichordata, Platyhelmintes and Bryozoa). Inset: Annual growth of the number of new marine natural products from different marine invertebrate phyla discovered in the 1990s, 2000s and during both decades.
Figure 2.
New natural products from Porifera.
Cumulative number of new natural products discovered from the most representative families in phylum Porifera from 1990 to 2009. Inset: Annual growth of the number of new marine natural products discovered from the most representative families in phylum Porifera in the 1990s, 2000s and during both decades.
Table 1.
Number of new natural products (NP) discovered in the most representative taxa of phylum Cnidaria and Porifera in the last two decades.
Figure 3.
New natural products from Cnidaria.
Cumulative number of new natural products discovered from the most representative families in phylum Cnidaria from 1990 to 2009. Inset: Annual growth of the number of new marine natural products discovered from the most representative families in phylum Cnidaria in the 1990s, 2000s and during both decades.
Table 2.
Number of species with new natural products (NP) and other ratios regarding species richness.
Figure 4.
Number of new natural products from marine invertebrates for world Economic Exclusive Zones (EEZ) during the 1990s and the 2000s. Boundaries of Biodiversity Hotspots worldwide are also presented.
Table 3.
Number of new natural products (NP) discovered in the most important Exclusive Economic Zones in the last two decades.
Figure 5.
Number of new marine natural products from invertebrates (NMNPI) for Biodiversity Hotspots (BH) worldwide during the 1990s and the 2000s (A – Polynesia-Micronesia, B – Caribbean islands, C – Mediterranean basin, D – Indo-Burma, E – Japan).
Figure 6.
Number of new marine natural products from invertebrates (NMNPI) for world Large Marine Ecosystems (LME) during the 1990s and the 2000s (A – Caribbean Sea, B – South China Sea, C – East China Sea, D – Kuroshio Current).