ME44B:
Zooplankton Productivity as a Function of Trophodynamics in Marine Ecosystems II Posters


Session ID#: 27784

Session Description:
The functional role of zooplankton communities in marine food-webs represents an effective integration of material/energy transfers through multiple lower trophic level interactions (phytoplankton and the microbial loop) toward animals at higher trophic levels. Zooplankton productivity represents an overarching functional measure of this critical role and has been emphasized as important to our understanding of how fishery resources respond to cyclical regime shifts and longer-term responses of marine ecosystems to global climate change. However, evaluation of zooplankton productivity and its controlling factors in the field is still challenging because of the necessity of broad coverage applicable to multiple phyla and trophic levels, with high temporal and spatial resolution.

This session will share the information on zooplankton productivity measured by various contemporary methods and relevant applications including transfer efficiency and relationships to biogeochemistry and fisheries production. We also welcome theoretical and methodological topics such as comparison and applicability of existing methods as well as the development of novel methods. Through this session, we would like to foster a cooperative network and research activities for zooplankton production measurements and methodologies among members of the PICES and ICES communities.

Primary Chair:  Akash R Sastri, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Co-chairs:  Toru Kobari, Fac. Fisheries, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan and Lidia Yebra, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Fuengirola, Spain
Moderators:  Akash R Sastri, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada and Toru Kobari, Fac. Fisheries, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Akash R Sastri, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Index Terms:

4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4817 Food webs, structure, and dynamics [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4890 Zooplankton [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • BN - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
  • CD - Coastal Dynamics
  • F - Fisheries
  • PO - Physical Oceanography: Other

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Community Structure, Standing Stock and Productivity of Mesozooplankton in the Southern Kyushu, Japan (303835)
Toru Kobari1, Akane Yamasaki2, Yuki Endo2, Gen Kume2, Mutsuo Ichinomiya3 and Tomohiro Komorita3, (1)Fac. Fisheries, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, (2)Kagoshima University, Aquatic Sciences, Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima, Japan, (3)Prefectural University of Kumamoto, Faculty of Environmental & Symbiotic Sciences, Kumamoto, Japan
Spatial and temporal variations in community structure, standing stock and productivity of mesozooplankton in the downstream of the Tsushima Strait (308185)
Taiga Honma, Kagosima University, Aquatic Sciences, Graduated School of Fisheries, Kagoshima, Japan, Toru Kobari, Fac. Fisheries, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, Akinobu Kodama, Kagoshima University, Aquatic Sciences, Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima, Japan, Tetsutaro Takikawa, Nagasaki University, Faculty of Fisferies, Nagasaki, Japan and Toshiki Watanabe, Yamaguchi Prefectural Fisheries Research Center, Yamaguchi, Japan
Seasonal variation of zooplankton abundance and community structure in Prince William Sound, Alaska, 2009-2016 (308975)
Caitlin Mckinstry and Robert W Campbell, Prince William Sound Science Center, Cordova, AK, United States
Growth of Calanoid Copepods on an Arctic Shelf (324932)
Alexandra Poje1, Caitlin Smoot1 and Russell R Hopcroft2, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Univ Alaska, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, United States
Temporal variations in depth-specific crustacean community structure and productivity estimates in a temperate fjord (321791)
John Dower, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada, Karyn Suchy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada and Akash R Sastri, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC, Canada
The scale of jellyfish fisheries (326305)
Lucas Brotz and Daniel Pauly, University of British Columbia, Sea Around Us, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Variability of zooplankton production across temporal and spatial scales in the Eastern Mediterranean ultra-oligotrophic pelagic region (306214)
Rana Abualhaija, EEWRC, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus, Carlos Jimenez, The Cyprus Institute, Energy, Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC), Nicosia, Cyprus and Manfred A Lange, Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
The ‘Great Disconnect’: New Lows in Gulf of Maine Lobster Recruitment during a Boom in Egg Production Linked to Changes in the Pelagic Foodweb (311117)
Joshua Thomas Carloni, New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, Durham, NH, United States, Richard Wahle, Darling Marine Center, University of Maine, Walpole, United States and Paul Geoghegan, Normandeau Associates, Inc., Bedford, NH, United States

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