Objective
The objective of the international GLOBEC Programme sponsored by SCOR,IOC and ICES is "to understand ocean ecosystem dynamics and how they are influenced by physical processes so that the predictability of populatior fluctuations in a changing global climate can be assessed". The aim is to promote large scale research into the effects of ocean climate change around the world. The programme of work in the northeast Atlantic presented here represents a coordinated European response to the GLOBEC initiative. Links with equivalent studies in the northwest Atlantic will be carried out through ICES. The objective is to understand the physical and biological processes which control the population dynamics of the copepod Calanus finmarchicuc a key zooplankton species in the northeast Atlantic. Establishing the 1relationship between the physical and biological factors affecting annual recruitment and reproduction of this species is an essential step towards predicting the consequences of future climatic change.
Hypothesis developed to address the linkage between physical processes and C. finmarchicus population dynamics are: 1. The interaction between vertical migrations and shelf edge hydrodyna mics determines the ability to C. finmarchicus to seasonally colonise northeast Atlantic shelf ecosystems from overwintering depths in Norwegian Deep Water off the shelf edge. 2. Year-to-year variations in the timing and dynamics of shelf populations are dependent on oceanic and shelf scale forcing.
3. The deep circulation in the Norwegian Sea Basin and overflow into the north Atlantic is responsible for a "teleconnection" between C. fin marchicus summer populations in northeast Atlantic rim ecosystems.
4. Latitudinal gradients in abiotic conditions and interactions with predators control large scale differences in overwintering behaviour. 5. The large scale demography, life history timing and generation cycle characteristics of C. finmarchicus are related to the basic physiology of the species in relation to feeding conditions and the pattern of entry to and emergence from diapause.
The project will test these hypothesis in a number of different settings around the north Atlantic Rim, in particular, off southern Iceland, the Faroe Plateau, the northern North Sea and along the Norwegian midshelf. The work programme combines laboratory and mesocosm investigations of nutrition, growth and reproductive biology with both large and small scale field studies. The accumulated knowledge will be synthesised in a range of modelling tasks and the results set in context by reference to statistical analysis of long term time series data.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences sociology demography
- medical and health sciences health sciences nutrition
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
- natural sciences biological sciences reproductive biology
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9037 TROMSOE
Norway
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