Collaborative
Research: Copepods in a Warming
Climate: A Pan-Regional Model
of
Arctic and Northwest Atlantic Systems
coPIs: Davis, Ji, Beardsley, Chen
Objectives1) 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.