FIGURE 1.

Arctic ecoregions as delineated by Spalding et al. (2007). Canadian Arctic ecoregions are coloured. 1, Hudson Bay Complex; 2, Northern Grand Banks‐Southern Labrador; 3, Northern Labrador; 4, Baffin Bay‐Davis Strait; 5, Lancaster Sound; 6, High Arctic Archipelago; 7, Beaufort‐Amundsen‐Viscount Melville‐Queen Maud; 8, Beaufort Sea‐continental coast and shelf; 9, Chukchi Sea; 10, Eastern Bering Strait; 11, East Siberian Sea; 12, Laptev Sea; 13, Kara Sea; 14, North and East Barents Sea; 15, White Sea; 16, North and East Iceland; 17, East Greenland Shelf; 18, North Greenland; 19, West Greenland Shelf