Sponge Reef Areas of the Pacific Region
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- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2020-05-12
- Date ( RI_366 )
- 1998-01-01
- Date ( RI_368 )
- 2022-05-17
- Credit
- Cite this data as: Anya Dunham, 2018. Sponge Reef Areas. Published Jul 01 2018. Data distributor: Anya Dunham, Marine Spatial Ecology Section, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, BC.
- Credit
- Conway, K.W. 1999. Hexactinellid Sponge Reefs on the British Columbia Continental Shelf: Geological and Biological Structure with a Perspective on their Role in the Shelf Ecosystem. DFO Can. Stock Assessment Sec. Res. Doc. 99/192. x + 21 p. https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/244686.pdf.
- Credit
- Conway, Kim & Barrie, James & Krautter, Manfred. (2004). Modern siliceous sponge reefs in a turbid, siliciclastic setting: Fraser River delta, British Columbia, Canada. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Monatshefte. 6. 335-350. 10.1127/njgpm/2004/2004/335.
- Credit
- Conway, K.W. & Krautter, Manfred & Barrie, James & Neuweiler, M.. (2001). Hexactinellid sponge reefs on the Canadian continental shelf: A unique "living fossil". Geoscience Canada. 28. 71-78.
- Credit
- K.W. Conway, J.V. Barrie, W.C. Austin, J.L. Luternauer, Holocene sponge bioherms on the western Canadian continental shelf, Continental Shelf Research, Volume 11, Issues 8–10, 1991, Pages 771-790, ISSN 0278-4343, https://doi.org/10.1016/0278-4343(91 )90079-L.
- Credit
- A. Dunham, S.K. Archer, S.C. Davies, L.A. Burke, J. Mossman, J.R. Pegg, E. Archer, Assessing condition and ecological role of deep-water biogenic habitats: Glass sponge reefs in the Salish Sea, Marine Environmental Research, Volume 141, 2018, Pages 88-99, ISSN 0141-1136, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.08.002.
- Credit
- Dunham, A., Mossman, J., Archer, S., Davies, S., Pegg, J., and Archer, E. 2018. Glass Sponge Reefs in the Strait of Georgia and Howe Sound: Status Assessment and Ecological Monitoring Advice. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Res. Doc. 2018/010. x + 221 p. https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/40759271.pdf.
- Credit
- DFO. 2018. Glass sponge aggregations in Howe Sound: locations, reef status, and ecological significance assessment. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Sci. Resp. 2018/032. https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/40714767.pdf.
- Credit
- DFO. 2020. Ground-truthing the latest set of suspected glass sponge reefs in Howe Sound: Reef delineation and status assessment. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Sci. Resp. 2020/026. https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/40923812.pdf.
- Credit
- Krautter, M., Conway, K.W., Barrie, J.V., Neuweiler, M. (2001). Discovery of a “Living Dinosaur”: Globally unique modern hexactinellid sponge reefs off British Columbia, Canada. Facies 44. 265–282. 10.1007/BF02668178.
- Credit
- Frank Whitney, Kim Conway, Richard Thomson, Vaughn Barrie, Manfred Krautter, George Mungov, Oceanographic habitat of sponge reefs on the Western Canadian Continental Shelf, Continental Shelf Research, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 211-226, ISSN 0278-4343, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2004.09.003.
- Status
- onGoing; enContinue RI_596
- Maintenance and update frequency
- biannually; semestriel RI_538
- Keywords ( RI_525 )
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- British Columbia
- Howe Sound
- Strait of Georgia
- Hecate Strait
- Queen Charlotte Sound
- Georgia Basin
- Queen Charlotte Basin
- Holocene
- BC
- Keywords ( RI_528 )
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- Sponge reefs
- Reefs
- Sensitive benthic areas
- Benthos
- Marine geology
- Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas
- EBSA
- Aquatic wildlife
- Biogenic habitat
- Protected areas
- Aphrocallistes vastus
- Farrea occa
- Heterochone calyx
- Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
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- Conservation
- Aquatic wildlife
- Aquatic ecosystems
- Ocean floor
- Oceans
- Habitats
- Classification
- unclassified; nonClassifié RI_484
- Use limitation
- Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
- Access constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Use constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Spatial representation type
- vector; vecteur RI_635
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Begin date
- 1998-01-01
- End date
- 2019-05-01
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- Reference system identifier
- http://www.epsg-registry.org/ / EPSG:3005 / 9.8.4
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Sponge Reef Areas of the Pacific Region
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Sponge Reef Areas of the Pacific Region
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- 8ba7bced-b63f-462a-a8a1-7c7c8a7bcfa4 XML
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Hierarchy level
- dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
- Date stamp
- 2025-02-06T13:53:46.15Z
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
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