Abstract
Author Posting. © The Oceanography Society, 2013. This article is posted here by permission of The Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 26, no. 4 (2013): 82–97, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2013.77.
Highlights
The broad objective of the Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) program was to understand the processes that control population variability
Ecosystem models provide the best proxy for controlled experiments and offer a way to study the integrated effects of the critical processes that occur on different scales (Fogarty and Powell, 2002)
Multispecies ecosystem models of increasing sophistication are being developed to meet the need for a community-level approach to management of marine resources and ecosystem services subject to fishing pressures and climatic change (Travers et al, 2007; Fogarty et al, 2013, in this issue)
Summary
The broad objective of the Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) program was to understand the processes that control population variability. Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation [PDO]) and interregional transport of large water masses strongly influence local ecosystem dynamics (Di Lorenzo et al, 2013, in this issue), control the composition of upwelling source waters (Huyer et al, 2002), and affect the composition of the local mesozooplankton grazer community (Batchelder et al, 2002; Keister and Peterson, 2003) These physical and lower trophic level processes directly affect the production of pelagic fishes (Brodeur and Pearcy, 1992; Ruzicka et al, 2011; Burke et al, 2013), benthic invertebrates (Barth et al, 2007), and local seabird and marine mammal populations (Ainley and Boekelheide, 1990; Keiper et al, 2005).
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