Table 2 List of benthic foraminiferal key species and associations used in this study.

Polar/Arctic water

Agglutinated

Cuneata arctica (Brady 1881)

^36,76

Recurvoides turbinatus (Brady 1881)

⁷⁷

Spiroplectammina biformis (Parker & Jones, 1865)

^76,78

Textularia torquata (Parker, 1952)

⁷⁹

Calcareous

Elphidium clavatum Cushman, 1930

^78,80

Islandiella helenae Feyling-Hanssen & Buzas, 1976

⁸¹

Stainforthia concava (Höglund, 1947)

^78,82

Stetsonia horvathi Green, 1959

^43,83

Chilled Atlantic water

Agglutinated

Adercotryma glomerata (Brady, 1878)

^36,84

Lagenammina difflugiformis (Brady, 1879)

^74,76

Reophax catella (Höglund, 1947)

⁸⁵

Calcareous

Cassidulina neoteretis (Seidenkrantz, 1995)

^37,40

Cassidulina reniforme (Nørvang, 1945)

^80,86

Islandiella norcrossi (Nørvang, 1945)

^35,36,38