Climate-Change Refugia for the Bubblegum Coral Paragorgia arborea in the Northwest Atlantic

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Shuangqiang Wang, F. Javier Murillo, Ellen Kenchington
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
• Subjects: climate-change refugia; deep-sea coral; species distribution modeling; model transferability; lagrangian particle tracking; Paragorgia arborea; Science; Q; General. Including nature conservation; geographical distribution; QH1-199.5; Canada; Gam; North Atlantic; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.863693; https://doaj.org/article/309a7b74d665411ca6fe7d764a5f812c

The large, habitat-forming bubblegum coral, Paragorgia arborea, is a vulnerable marine ecosystem indicator with an antitropical distribution. Dense aggregations of the species have been protected from bottom-contact fishing in the Scotian Shelf bioregion off Nova Scotia, Canada in the northwest Atla...