Environmental variables are strongly tied to species occurrence and population growth, but approaches to predicting the location of deep‐sea species or their ability to withstand a changing environment stem primarily from presence data. We coupled environmental data with observed densities of deep‐sea habitat‐forming corals and sponges to determine the environmental variables and geomorphology that contributed best to their occurrence.

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深海栖息地形成物种密度的精细比例图揭示了生物分类学的特定环境驱动因素

环境变量与物种的发生和种群的增长密切相关，但是预测深海物种的位置或它们抵御变化环境的能力的方法主要来自存在数据。我们将环境数据与观察到的深海栖息地形成的珊瑚和海绵的密度相结合，以确定最有助于其发生的环境变量和地貌。