ME016
What are long-term observations teaching us about resilience of marine ecosystems?
Session ID#: 85092
Session Description:
Long-term studies are essential for understanding underlying processes driving productive marine ecosystems, with a cross-disciplinary approach necessary for discovering the environmental drivers that influence ecosystem function. Within the context of a changing ocean environment, long-term research provides a valuable framework for understanding ecosystem response to unpredictable events, long-term cycles and progressive directional change. This session seeks to highlight long-term cross-disciplinary studies that advance understanding of resilience, or lack thereof, in marine biomes. We invite submissions from coastal and pelagic ecosystem studies that rely on decadal-scale observations and/or modeling to reveal the processes influencing ecosystem function.
Index Terms:
4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4513 Decadal ocean variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4845 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: CHEMICAL]
Primary Chair: Russell R Hopcroft, University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, United States
Co-chairs: Jerome Fiechter, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Suzanne Strom, Western Washington University, Shannon Point Marine Center, Anacortes, WA, United States and Ana Aguilar-Islas, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Primary Liaison: Russell R Hopcroft, University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, United States
Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Phytoplankton Abundance and Community Composition on the Central Coast of California (635624)
Alex Barth1,2, Ryan K Walter3, Ian Robbin3 and Alexis Pasulka3, (1)United States, (2)University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States, (3)California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, United States
Population resilience of the copepod Oithona similis to climatic variability: egg production, mortality, and vertical habitat partitioning (640247)
Louise Cornwell1,2, Angus Atkinson3, Helen S Findlay2, Ceri N Lewis4, John Bruun5, Andrew Hirst6, Elaine Fileman2, Andrea McEvoy2, Glen Tarran2, Timothy J Smyth2 and Claudia Castellani2, (1)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (3)Plymouth Marine Lab, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (4)University of Exeter, Department of Biosciences, Geoffrey Pope Building, Exeter, EX4 4QD, United Kingdom, (5)University of Exeter, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (6)University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Foundation species and biodiversity support and stabilize kelp forest ecosystems (644510)
Robert J. Miller1, Thomas Lamy2, Max Castorani3, Adrian Craig Stier4, Andrew Rassweiler1, Kevin D. Lafferty5 and Daniel Reed6, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (4)University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (5)USGS - Western Ecological Research Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (6)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Winter Algal Blooms in Abu Dhabi Waters: Definition, Mechanisms and Link to Eutrophication (645443)
Rajan Anbiah1, Rajasekhar Thankamony2, Azza Ahmed AlRaisi2, Ponpandi Perumal2 and Shaikha Ahmed Al Hosani3, (1)Environment Agency- Abu Dhabi, Marine Water Quality, Abu Dhabi, United States, (2)Environment Agency- Abu Dhabi, Marine Water Quality, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (3)Environment Agency- Abu Dhabi, Environment Quality Sector, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Habitat Monitoring and Marine Protection of Habitat-Forming Bryozoa, Otago, New Zealand (647580)
Hannah Mello1, Abigail M Smith1, Anna Wood1, Emily Tidey1 and Dennis Gordon2, (1)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (2)National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
Changes in the nekton community structure of the Northern Humboldt Current System under ENSO scenarios (652869)
Paola Galloso1, Pierre Legendre1 and Giancarlo M Correa2, (1)University of Montreal, Biological Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Nutrient dynamics and their influence in the Northern Gulf of Alaska (654972)
Ana Aguilar-Islas, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Mette R Kaufman, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, CA, United States and Suzanne Strom, Shannon Point Marine Ctr, Anacortes, WA, United States
Modeling Phytoplankton Community Changes in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela (655961)
Benjamin Post1, Esteban Acevedo-Trejos1, Andrew David Barton2 and Agostino Merico1, (1)Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Section of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, La Jolla, CA, United States
Using Long-term Monitoring to Assess if Humpback Whales in the Gulf of Alaska are Really in Hot Water (656288)
Jan Straley, University of Alaska, Sitka, AK, United States, Robert M Suryan, NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Auke Bay Laboratories, Juneau, AK, United States, John Richard Moran, NMFS/NOAA, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Juneau, AK, United States, Ellen M Chenoweth, University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Mayumi Arimitsu, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, Christine M Gabriele, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Humpback Whale Monitoring Program, Gustavus, AK, United States and Janet L Neilson, Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Humpback Whale Monitoring Program, Gustavus, AK, United States
Shifting Trophic Structure of Rocky Shores in the Gulf of Maine: Implications forResilience of Coastal Ecosystems in a Changing Climate (657995)
Steven R Dudgeon, California State University at Northridge, Biology, Northridge, CA, United States and Peter S Petraitis, University of Pennsylvania, Biology, Philadelphia, PA, United States
