PI001
Animal Behaviour, Prey Energyscapes and Ocean Features: Synthesising Oceanographic and Ecological Perspectives
Animal Behaviour, Prey Energyscapes and Ocean Features: Synthesising Oceanographic and Ecological Perspectives
Session ID#: 259554
Session Description:
This session aims to promote discussion and innovation between oceanographers and ecologists exploring animal-ocean interactions from different perspectives: consequences of physical features for higher trophic levels; physical and lower trophic level drivers of movement, behaviour and demography of predators; and the use of animal observations to characterize dynamic marine environments.
Marine animals interact with ocean features such as fronts, eddies, upwelling regimes and other physical dynamics. Quantifying these interactions and their consequences remains challenging, requiring integrated ecological and oceanographic knowledge across multiple trophic levels. Recent advances in animal-tracking technology, modelling methods, and ocean observations allow new synthesis. Understanding how animals respond to ocean features is critical for predicting species distributions and behaviour in changing environments.
We welcome studies addressing interactions between nekton and ocean features, from top-predators down and physical oceanography up. Example topics include:
• how animals exploit preyscapes aggregated by ocean features;
• movement and demography responses to past/future change in physical and lower trophic level environments;
• influence of oceanographic features in shaping environmental niches;
• applications of animal-borne and other observations to advance physical oceanography;
• new mathematical approaches to quantifying, visualising and understanding drivers of animal behaviour across multiple spatial, temporal and trophic levels.
Marine animals interact with ocean features such as fronts, eddies, upwelling regimes and other physical dynamics. Quantifying these interactions and their consequences remains challenging, requiring integrated ecological and oceanographic knowledge across multiple trophic levels. Recent advances in animal-tracking technology, modelling methods, and ocean observations allow new synthesis. Understanding how animals respond to ocean features is critical for predicting species distributions and behaviour in changing environments.
We welcome studies addressing interactions between nekton and ocean features, from top-predators down and physical oceanography up. Example topics include:
• how animals exploit preyscapes aggregated by ocean features;
• movement and demography responses to past/future change in physical and lower trophic level environments;
• influence of oceanographic features in shaping environmental niches;
• applications of animal-borne and other observations to advance physical oceanography;
• new mathematical approaches to quantifying, visualising and understanding drivers of animal behaviour across multiple spatial, temporal and trophic levels.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- Climate and Ocean Change -
- Marine Ecology and Biodiversity -
- Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller -
Index Terms:
4273 Physical and biogeochemical interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4830 Higher trophic levels [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4858 Population dynamics and ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
Student/Early Career Chair: Laura McDonnell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, United States
Primary Chair: Emma Tyldesley, University of Strathclyde, Mathematics and Statistics, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Co-chairs: Jacquelyn Veatch, PhD, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, United States, Charlotte Regan, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH), Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Jérôme Pinti, PhD, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, United States
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