Sponge assemblages and predicted archetypes in the eastern Canadian Arctic

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Murillo, Francisco Javier, Kenchington, Ellen, Tompkins, Gabrielle, Beazley, Lindsay, Baker, Emily, Knudby, Anders, Walkusz, Wojciech
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: sponge grounds; biodiversity; community modelling; community structure; Significant Benthic Areas; Davis Strait; Baffin Bay; European Union (EU); Horizon 2020; Grant Agreement No 679849; Deep-sea Sponge Grounds Ecosystems of the North Atlantic: an integrated approach towards their preservation and sustainable exploitation; SponGES; Arctic; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Ungava Bay; Dyer; Cape Dyer; Baffin; Climate change; North Atlantic; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/2645206; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12589

Little information exists on the environmental requirements of sponges from the Canadian Arctic, increasing the necessity to establish baseline distribution data on sponge assemblages to predict their susceptibility to climate change. Here we describe the sponge taxa of Hudson Strait, Ungava Bay, We...