• Seasonal Variability in Near-bed Environmental Conditions in the Vazella pourtalesii Glass Sponge Grounds of the Scotian Shelf 

      Hanz, Ulrike; Beazley, Lindsay; Kenchington, Ellen; Duineveld, Gerard; Rapp, Hans Tore; Mienis, Furu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Scotian Shelf harbors unique aggregations of the glass sponge Vazella pourtalesii that provides an important habitat for benthic and pelagic fauna. Recent studies have shown that these sponge grounds have persisted in ...
    • sFDvent: A global trait database for deep‐sea hydrothermal‐vent fauna 

      Chapman, Abbie; Beaulieu, Stace; Colaço, Ana; Gebruk, Andrey; Hilário, Ana; Kihara, Terue C.; Ramirez-Llodra, Eva; Sarrazin, Jozee; Tunnicliffe, Verena J.; Amon, Diva J.; Baker, Maria; Boschen-Rose, Rachel; Chen, Chong; Cooper, Isabelle; Copley, Jonathan; Corbari, Laure; Cordes, Erik; Cuvelier, Daphne; Duperron, Sebastien; Du Preez, Cherisse; Gollner, Sabine; Horton, Tammy; Hourdez, Stephane; Kryolova, Elena; Linse, Kathrin; LokaBharati, P.A.; Marsh, Leigh; Matabos, Marjolaine; Wier Mills, Susan; Mullineaux, Lauren; Rapp, Hans Tore; Reid, William David Kenneth; Rybakova, Elena; Thomas, Tresa Remya; Southgate, Samuel James; Stöhr, Sabine; Turner, Philip J; Watanabe, Hiromi Kayama; Yasuhara, Moriaki; Bates, Amanda E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Motivation: Traits are increasingly being used to quantify global biodiversity patterns, with trait databases growing in size and number, across diverse taxa. Despite growing interest in a trait‐based approach to the ...
    • Spatial patterns of arctic sponge ground fauna and demersal fish are detectable in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imagery 

      Meyer, Heidi Kristina; Roberts, Emyr Martyn; Rapp, Hans Tore; Davies, Andrew J (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10-10)
      Deep-sea sponge grounds are important habitats that provide several ecosystem services, yet relatively little is known about their distribution and ecology. While most surveys have focused on the broad-scale distribution ...
    • Water masses constrain the distribution of deep-sea sponges in the North Atlantic Ocean and Nordic Seas 

      Roberts, E. M.; Bowers, D. G.; Meyer, H. K.; Samuelsen, Annette; Rapp, Hans Tore; Cardenas, P. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Water masses are bodies of water with distinctive physical and biogeochemical properties. They impart vertical structure to the deep ocean, participate in circulation, and can be traced over great distances, potentially ...