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# Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics and Climate Change

# Dynamics of Open Ocean Populations
Report of a U.S. GLOBEC Workshop

## Report Number 14

## July 1995

#### Title Page and Credits

## Table of Contents

- Executive Summary

- Introduction and Background

  - U.S. GLOBEC Objectives
  - Importance of Open Ocean Ecosystems
  - Workshop Goals
  - Workshop Structure

- Summaries of Working Group Discussions

  - Population Characteristics and Genetics
  - Distributional Patterns and Sampling Problems
  - Biological Processes and Rates
  - Physical and Biological Forcing

- Workshop Summary and Recommendations

- Literature Cited

- Appendix 1 - Workshop Agenda

- Appendix 2 - Working Group Assignments

- Appendix 3 - Participants