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Polychaete diversity and distribution patterns in Canadian marine waters

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As changes to Canada’s marine biodiversity loom and the tools for assessing biodiversity advance, it becomes increasingly important to have baseline information about a region’s species so that future comparisons can be made. The polychaetes represent a conspicuous component of benthic communities in Canadian marine waters, yet information on species diversity and distribution is available only at the local scale. This study compiles polychaete species records from Canada over the last 150 years to assess broad-scale patterns of species richness, beta diversity (partitioned into turnover and nestedness), and species distributions in the surrounding Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific Oceans. Records indicate the presence of 1200 species belonging to 68 families, while statistical extrapolation estimated a total of 1629 species. Pacific waters have the highest richness with 791 recorded species. The eastern and western regions of the Arctic Ocean have the highest faunal similarity, but the fewest endemic species, reflecting the recent ice-free status of this basin. Species turnover is highest between Pacific and Atlantic basins, decreases with geographic proximity, and is lowest in comparisons with Hudson Bay. Similar patterns of turnover between temperate and (sub)Arctic basins suggest that both Atlantic and Pacific faunas played an important role in Arctic recolonization following deglaciation. Despite the vast geographic area, nearly 13% of species are reported in all three oceans; however, many of these taxa likely represent species complexes. These results highlight the need for more detailed examination of many species with broad distributions and suggest that diversity in Canada is currently underestimated.

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  1. Checklist of Canadian Polychaeta. Species checklist of 1200 polychaetes from Canadian marine waters with information on geography, synonymies, and type localities

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I appreciatively acknowledge R. Barnich, D. Fiege, T. Bakken, M. Schüller, and A. Rzhavsky for comments concerning the validity and synonymy of species in various families, as well as J. M. Gagnon for providing literature from the Canadian Museum of Nature. I thank E. Corstorphine, R. Floyd, P. Hebert, M. Sherrard, J. Wilson, and two anonymous reviewers for comments on previous versions of the manuscript. This work was supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery grant and a NSERC Strategic Network grant from the Canadian Healthy Oceans Network to P. Hebert.

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Carr, C.M. Polychaete diversity and distribution patterns in Canadian marine waters. Mar Biodiv 42, 93–107 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-011-0095-y

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