ME41A:
Impacts of Ecological Interactions on Marine Ecosystem Dynamics: New Insights from Models, Theory, and Field Measurements I


Session ID#: 11311

Session Description:
Ocean ecosystems make up the largest living space on the planet. Understanding the behavior, physiology, and evolution of marine organisms in the context of their chemical and physical environments and species interactions is key advancing our understanding of community and ecosystem functioning across systems. Multiple general concepts in ecology have originated from pelagic systems, including ecological stoichiometry, trophic cascades, and the match/mismatch hypothesis. However, a fundamental hurdle in advancing our understanding of ecological processes in the ocean remains the traditional boundary between ecology and oceanography. In this session, we seek to bring together those posing questions about pelagic ocean ecosystems, bridging empirical investigations with ecological theory and process models. We welcome both theoretical and empirical research addressing ecological interactions across a range of scales and trophic levels, with particular emphasis on the integration of field sampling, ecological theory, and/or modeling aimed to reveal processes structuring ocean ecosystems.
Primary Chair:  Clifton Brock Woodson, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Chairs:  Kelly J Benoit-Bird, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Adam T Greer, The University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Steven Yitzchak Litvin, Hopkins Marine Station - Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, United States, Tessa B Francis, University of Washington Tacoma, Puget Sound Institute, Tacoma, WA, United States, Kirstin Holsman, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, Charles A Stock, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Mark D Ohman, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and J A Kleypas, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, CO, United States
Moderators:  Clifton Brock Woodson, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States; University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Charles A Stock, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Tessa B Francis, University of Washington Tacoma, Puget Sound Institute, Tacoma, WA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Clifton Brock Woodson, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States and Charles A Stock, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Index Terms:

4813 Ecological prediction [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4830 Higher trophic levels [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4890 Zooplankton [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

ME41A-01
Complexity Increases Predictability in Allometrically-Constrained Food Webs (87362)
Alison Catherine Iles, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany and Mark Novak, Oregon State University, Department of Integrative Biology, Corvallis, OR, United States
ME44B-0851
The Adaptive Ecosystem Climatology (AEC): Implementation (91569)
Bradley Penta1, Sergio deRada1, Arnaud Grüss2, Richard W Gould Jr3 and Sean McCarthy4, (1)Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Miami, FL, United States, (3)Naval Research Lab., Ocenography, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (4)US Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
ME41A-03
A More Productive, But Different, Ocean After Mitigation (87734)
Jasmin G John, Charles A Stock and John P Dunne, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
ME41A-04
The Influence of Predator-prey Interactions on Climate-induced Range Shifts in Marine Communities (90581)
Rebecca Lee Selden, Ryan D Batt, James W Morley and Malin L. Pinsky, Rutgers University, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
ME41A-05
Scaling Coastal Ecosystems to Oceanographic and Climatic Drivers: Making Sense of Community Variation on Rocky Shores Using the Comparative-Experimental Approach in Upwelling and Downwelling Systems (87891)
Bruce A Menge1, Tarik Gouhier2, Francis Chan3, Sally Hacker3, Duncan Menge4 and Karina Johanne Nielsen5, (1)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Northeastern University, Marine Science Center, Nahant, MA, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Department of Integrative Biology, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (5)Romberg Tiburon Center, Tiburon, CA, United States
ME41A-06
Examining recruitment paradigms under projected climate change with a global fish model (92896)
Colleen Mary Petrik, Texas A & M, Department of Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, Jorge L Sarmiento, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Charles A Stock, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and James R. Watson, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
ME41A-07
Environmental Variability and Plankton Community Dynamics in the English Channel (91379)
Andrew Barton1, Fernando Gonzalez1, Angus Atkinson2 and Charles A Stock3, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Plymouth Marine Lab, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (3)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
ME41A-08
Application of a predator-prey overlap metric to determine the impact of sub-grid scale feeding dynamics on ecosystem productivity (88824)
Adam T Greer, The University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States; University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Clifton Brock Woodson, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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