Collaborative
Research: Copepods in a Warming
Climate: A Pan-Regional Model
of Arctic and Northwest
Atlantic Systems
coPIs: Davis, Ji, Beardsley, Chen
Objectives
1) merge our NWA
and AO physical models via
a new global model grid,
extending our lower food web model (NPZD) across the pan-regional domain, to generate present and future (2050) environmental conditions.
2) use these
modeled environmental
conditions together with life histories of key species to determine their population growth potential within and across regions,
3) use an
individual based model (IBM) parameterized for key species to examine effects of transport and
behavior on population growth and resulting pan-regional distribution patterns,
4) develop a new evolutionary IBM for a
generic copepod to determine selection of optimal
life history traits under existing and future (warm) conditions across the pan-regional
domain.