Arctic realm

Arctic realm

The Arctic realm is one of the planet's twelve marine realms, as designated by the WWF and Nature Conservancy. It includes the coastal regions and continental shelves of the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas, including the Arctic Archipelago, Hudson Bay, and the Labrador Sea of northern Canada, the seas surrounding Greenland, the northern and eastern coasts of Iceland, and the eastern Bering Sea.

The Arctic realm transitions to the Temperate Northern Atlantic realm in the Atlantic Basin, and the Temperate Northern Pacific realm in the Pacific Basin.

Ecoregions

The Arctic realm is further subdivided into 19 marine ecoregions:

*North Greenland
*North and East Iceland
*East Greenland Shelf
*West Greenland Shelf
*Northern Grand Banks-Southern Labrador
*Northern Labrador
*Baffin Bay-Davis Strait
*Hudson Complex
*Lancaster Sound
*High Arctic Archipelago
*Beaufort-Admunsen-Viscount Melville-Queen Maud
*Beaufort Sea-continental coast and shelf
*Chukchi Sea
*Eastern Bering Sea
*East Siberian Sea
*Laptev Sea
*Kara Sea
*North and East Barents Sea
*White Sea

References

* Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson "et al." "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas". "Bioscience" Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573-583. [http://www.worldwildlife.org/MEOW/pdfs/meow_biosci.pdf]

External links

* [http://www.worldwildlife.org/MEOW/ Marine Ecoregions of the World (WWF)]


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