Description and Spatial Modelling of Benthic Communities Distribution in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Dumais, Philippe-Olivier, Grant, Cindy, Bluhm, Bodil A., De Montety, Laure, de Coeli, Lisa Treau, Tremblay, Jean-Éric, Archambault, Philippe
• Other Authors: Canada Foundation for Innovation, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, ArcticNet, W. Garfield Weston Foundation, Canada First Research Excellence Fund
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2022
• Subjects: Ocean Engineering; Water Science and Technology; Aquatic Science; Global and Planetary Change; Oceanography; Arctic; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Lancaster Sound; Pacific; Parry; Queen Maud Gulf; Arctic Archipelago; Baffin; Beaufort Sea; Climate change; Kitikmeot; Parry Channel; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.898852; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.898852/full

In the Arctic, sea ice loss has already transformed the dominant sources and periodicity of primary production in some areas, raising concerns over climate change impacts on benthic communities. Considered to be excellent indicators of environmental changes, benthic invertebrates play important role...