DataSheet_1_Climate-Change Refugia for the Bubblegum Coral Paragorgia arborea in the Northwest Atlantic.docx

• Main Authors: Shuangqiang Wang, F. Javier Murillo, Ellen Kenchington
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Oceanography; Marine Biology; Marine Geoscience; Biological Oceanography; Chemical Oceanography; Physical Oceanography; Marine Engineering; climate-change refugia; deep-sea coral; species distribution modeling; model transferability; lagrangian particle tracking; Paragorgia arborea; protected area design; Canada; Gam; North Atlantic; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.863693.s001; https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/DataSheet_1_Climate-Change_Refugia_for_the_Bubblegum_Coral_Paragorgia_arborea_in_the_Northwest_Atlantic_docx/20286129

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...