ME54A:
Observations of Climate Change and Marine Ecosystem Biodiversity Posters
ME54A:
Observations of Climate Change and Marine Ecosystem Biodiversity Posters
Observations of Climate Change and Marine Ecosystem Biodiversity Posters
Session ID#: 9538
Session Description:
Sustainable resource management in a variable climate requires an increased understanding of how climate, fishing, and other stressors interact to affect marine organisms, their habitats, predator-prey relationships, as well as related effects on people and economies. There is increasing evidence about the impacts of climate variability and change on marine ecosystems from the surface to the benthos. Climate-related parameters (e.g. ocean temperature, salinity, turbidity, stratification, currents, coastal precipitation, runoff, inundation, pH, etc.) can directly and indirectly affect marine ecosystem conditions. These changes are likely to impact the abundance, distribution, and productivity of the organisms composing the ecosystem, some that support economically important fisheries. Many of these changes remain undocumented or not rigorously evaluated especially between the Equator and the cooler temperate zones, perhaps due to their subtle nature.
This session encourages contributions that illustrate that climate change is affecting marine ecosystems including people from the surface pelagic realm to the marine benthos. Of particular interest are: 1) biogeographic shifts and timing of life history behaviors (phenology) in response to changing water temperatures; 2) changing hydrodynamics and forcing (locally, regionally and oceanic); 3) ocean acidification; 4) changing geochemical conditions (e.g. salinity, turbidity, chlorophyll, other optical); and 5) sea level rise.
Primary Chair: Mitchell A Roffer, Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service, West Melbourne, FL, United States
Chairs: John T Lamkin, NOAA, NMFS, Miami, FL, United States, Debra Lee Hernandez, Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association. SECOORA, Charleston, SC, United States and Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States
Moderators: Mitchell A Roffer, Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service, West Melbourne, FL, United States and Debra Lee Hernandez, Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association. SECOORA, Charleston, SC, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Mitchell A Roffer, Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service, West Melbourne, FL, United States
Index Terms:
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4858 Population dynamics and ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
- EC - Estuarine and Coastal
- OD - Ocean Observing and Data Management
- PC - Past, Present and Future Climate
- PP - Phytoplankton and Primary Production
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Climate Change in U.S. South Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Fisheries Regions (87486)
Climate-driven Shifting in Distribution Patterns of Calanus sinicus Brodsky in the Continental Shelf Waters of the Northwest Pacific Ocean (89060)
Prediction of Changes in Arctic Benthic Ecosystems on the Basis of Large Scale Study of Benthic Biomass Size Spectra (89508)
Does Water Quality Affect Size-frequency Distribution and Population Abundance of Porites astreoides? (90049)
Preliminary Study on Distribution and Abundance of Chaetognaths (Arrow Worms) in the Gulf of Mexico. (90240)
Moving Northward? First Record of Spilocuma Watlingi (Crustacea: Cumacea: Bodotriidae) in Mid-Atlantic Region, Maryland Coastal Bays, USA (91516)
Geographic Patterns in Intertidal Communities and Taxon Richness in Glacier Bay, Alaska: The Complex Spatial Interaction of Time since Deglaciation and Environmental Variables (93438)
Phylogenetic and Pigment Phenotypical Diversification of Synechococcus Community in the Western Pacific Ocean (93784)
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