ME54A:
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)
Mitchell A Roffer1, Debra Lee Hernandez2, John T Lamkin3, Roger Pugliese4, Marcel Reichert5 and Candice Hall1, (1)Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service, West Melbourne, FL, United States, (2)Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association. SECOORA, Charleston, SC, United States, (3)NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, SEFSC, Miami Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States, (4)South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council, Charleston, SC, (5)South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Charleston, SC, United States
 
Climate-driven Shifting in Distribution Patterns of Calanus sinicus Brodsky in the Continental Shelf Waters of the Northwest Pacific Ocean (89060)
Qing Yang1, Hui Liu2, Qi-lun Yan1 and Jing-feng Fan1, (1)National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center of China, (2)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Department of Marine Biology, Galveston, TX, United States
 
Prediction of Changes in Arctic Benthic Ecosystems on the Basis of Large Scale Study of Benthic Biomass Size Spectra (89508)
Mikołaj Mazurkiewicz1,2, Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk1, Barbara Górska1 and Paul Renaud3, (1)Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Marine Ecology Department, Sopot, Poland, (2)Centre for Polar Studies, Sosnowiec, Poland, (3)Akvaplan-niva, Tromso, Norway
 
Does Water Quality Affect Size-frequency Distribution and Population Abundance of Porites astreoides? (90049)
Fabiola Rivera-Irizarry, Alex E. Mercado-Molina and Alberto M Sabat, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, PR, United States
 
Preliminary Study on Distribution and Abundance of Chaetognaths (Arrow Worms) in the Gulf of Mexico. (90240)
Jillian Gilmartin, Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States, Qing Yang, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center of China and Hui Liu, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine Biology, Galveston, TX, United States
 
Evaluating temperature as a driver of changing coastal biodiversity (91228)
Ryan D Batt1, James W Morley1, Rebecca Lee Selden1, Morgan W Tingley2 and Malin L. Pinsky1, (1)Rutgers University, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Storrs, CT, United States
 
Moving Northward? First Record of Spilocuma Watlingi (Crustacea: Cumacea: Bodotriidae) in Mid-Atlantic Region, Maryland Coastal Bays, USA (91516)
Andres G. Morales-Nunez, NSF - CREST Center for the Integrated Study of Coastal Ecosystem Processes and Dynamics in the Mid-Atlantic Region (CISCEP), Department of Natural Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD, United States and Paulinus Chigbu, NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD, United States
 
Geographic Patterns in Intertidal Communities and Taxon Richness in Glacier Bay, Alaska: The Complex Spatial Interaction of Time since Deglaciation and Environmental Variables (93438)
Gail V Irvine, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States and T. Scott Smeltz Jr, Alaska Pacific University, Environmental Science, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
Depth, Salinity and Temperature Variability in the Maryland Coastal Lagoons (93575)
Paulinus Chigbu1, Hector Malagon1 and Steve Doctor2, (1)University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Natural Sciences, Princess Anne, MD, United States, (2)Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Annapolis, MD, United States
 
Phylogenetic and Pigment Phenotypical Diversification of Synechococcus Community in the Western Pacific Ocean (93784)
Hongbin Liu and Xiaomin Xia, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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