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    Climate impacts on zooplankton population dynamics in coastal marine ecosystems

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    2013-12
    Author
    Batchelder, Harold P.  Concept link
    Daly, Kendra L.  Concept link
    Davis, Cabell S.  Concept link
    Ji, Rubao  Concept link
    Ohman, Mark D.  Concept link
    Peterson, William T.  Concept link
    Runge, Jeffrey A.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/6579
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2013.74
    DOI
    10.5670/oceanog.2013.74
    Abstract
    The 20-year US GLOBEC (Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) program examined zooplankton populations and their predators in four coastal marine ecosystems. Program scientists learned that environmental controls on zooplankton vital rates, especially the timing and magnitude of reproduction, growth, life-cycle progression, and mortality, determine species population dynamics, seasonal and spatial distributions, and abundances. Improved knowledge of spatial-temporal abundance and distribution of individual zooplankton taxa coupled with new information linking higher trophic level predators (salmon, cod, haddock, penguins, seals) to their prey yielded mechanistic descriptions of how climate variation impacts regionally important marine resources. Coupled ecological models driven by improved regional-scale climate scenario models developed during GLOBEC enable forecasts of plausible future conditions in coastal ecosystems, and will aid and inform decision makers and communities as they assess, respond, and adapt to the effects of environmental change. Multi-region synthesis revealed that conditions in winter, before upwelling, or seasonal stratification, or ice melt (depending on region) had significant and important effects that primed the systems for greater zooplankton population abundance and productivity the following spring-summer, with effects that propagated to higher trophic levels.
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    Author Posting. © The Oceanography Society, 2013. This article is posted here by permission of The Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 26, no. 4 (2013): 34–51, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2013.74.
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    Oceanography 26, no. 4 (2013): 34–51
     
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