Tropical Marine Ecology. Daniel M. Alongi

and the eastern Bay of Bengal, and some portions of Southeast Asia and NE Brazil; micro‐tides (< 2 m tidal range) dominate everywhere else in the tropics.

FIGURE 3.3 Global distribution of semi‐diurnal, diurnal, and mixed tides.

      Source: Gerkema (2019), figure 1, p.14. © Cambridge University Press.

FIGURE 3.4 Distribution of tidal ranges across the world ocean.

      Source: Image provided by and used with permission of James Chittleborough, Australian Bureau of Meteorology. © Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

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