• Objectives: Use the same model
setup for the Barents Sea and the Georges Bank ecosystems and model drift, dispersal, growth, feeding, survival, and behavior.
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• Identify
the major processes that affect survival variability between ecosystems.
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• Simulate
a set of years that contributed strongly to recruitment in each of the ecosystems, and try to understand the major
underlying causes.
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• Meet
objectives using:
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Physical model (ROMS)
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Individual based model (IBM)
• - What
about prey fields? Modeled prey fields? Theoretical prey fields? Observed prey fields?
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- How many prey stages should be
included?
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What type of atmospheric data to use?
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