Advection: supply/loss to GOM
Background
Background
•Are
GB copepods endogenous to GOM or exogenous (SS, Slope water)?
•Deep-water
circulation affects supply/loss to basins:
•retaining
and/or concentrating animals in the basin gyres
•advectively
connecting the basin populations residing above the shallowest closed isobath
•advecting
Slope Water animals into the GOM through the NEC
•Exchange
of slope and basin copepod populations profoundly affected by strongly interannually
varying winds
•Turnover
of diapausing populations in late summer/fall