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

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Wang, Shuangqiang, Murillo-Perez, Javier, Kenchington, Ellen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: North Atlantic; Northwest Atlantic; Paragorgia arborea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.863693

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 Atl...