The results from the project are currently in the process of publication. Most species are predominantly found only north or south of the Greenland-Scotland submarine ridge, that separates the warm and saline Atlantic water from the cool, less saline Arctic water at depths greater than approximately 600 meters.
Salinity seems to be an important factor in determining species distributions.
Another paper will focus on the taxonomic revision of the subfamily Nodosariinae on the basis of the Icelandic species. This paper will also include surprising information on the secondary lamination patterns in some species. Before I started as a graduate student, I investigated diversity and bathymetric distribution of benthic foraminifera in the Greenland Sea. Fifty species were identified and bathymetric distributions were compared with proposed feeding conditions and feeding strategies. Langstrakte foraminiferer fra Island.