ME34E:
What Are Long-Term Observations Teaching Us About Resilience of Marine Ecosystems? I Posters
ME34E:
What Are Long-Term Observations Teaching Us About Resilience of Marine Ecosystems? I Posters
What Are Long-Term Observations Teaching Us About Resilience of Marine Ecosystems? I Posters
Session ID#: 85092
Session Description:
Long-term studies are essential for understanding underlying processes driving productive marine ecosystems, with a cross-disciplinary approach necessary for discovering the environmental drivers that influence ecosystem function. Within the context of a changing ocean environment, long-term research provides a valuable framework for understanding ecosystem response to unpredictable events, long-term cycles and progressive directional change. This session seeks to highlight long-term cross-disciplinary studies that advance understanding of resilience, or lack thereof, in marine biomes. We invite submissions from coastal and pelagic ecosystem studies that rely on decadal-scale observations and/or modeling to reveal the processes influencing ecosystem function.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- OM - Ocean Modeling
- PC - Past, Present and Future Climate
- PI - Physical-Biological Interactions
Index Terms:
4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4513 Decadal ocean variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4845 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: CHEMICAL]
Primary Chair: Russell R Hopcroft, University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Co-chairs: Jerome Fiechter, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Suzanne Strom, Western Washington University, Shannon Point Marine Center, Anacortes, WA, United States and Ana Aguilar-Islas, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Primary Liaison: Russell R Hopcroft, University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Moderators: Ana Aguilar-Islas, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States and Russell R Hopcroft, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Suzanne Strom, Shannon Point Marine Ctr, Anacortes, WA, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
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