Processes Controlling Abundance of Dominant Copepod Species on
Georges Bank: Local Dynamics and Large-Scale Forcing
Davis, Beardsley, Chen, Ji,
Durbin, Townsend, Runge, Flagg
Objectives:
"To understand the biological-physical mechanisms controlling the
development
of 3D spatial patterns of lower food web (NPZD) and dominant
copepod species on GB/GOM (days to years).
"Examine local-dynamics and external forcing.
"Determine the relative importance of food, predation, and
advection.
"Use FVCOM together with GLOBEC and other data sets, to conduct targeted
numerical experiments: sustainability, SW and SS intrusions, catastrophic
warming.
Website: http://www.whoi.edu/sites/G4Bcopepods