Protecting the "Center of the Center"
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Aug 11, 2008
Old Dominion University associate professor Kent Carpenter told an audience composed mostly of young people that the "Philippines is the center of the center of marine biodiversity." Dr. Carpenter and Victor G. Springer's study entitled "The Center of the Center of Marine Shore Fish Biodiversity," revealed that the Indo-Malay-Philippine Archipelago (IMPA) has the richest marine biodiversity in the



