PICES climate change and carrying capacity workshop on the development of cooperative research in coastal regions of the North Pacific
Subtitle: October 17-18, Pusan, Republic of Korea
By: sponsored by PICES-GLOBEC, CCCC REX Task Team ; organizing committee, Anne B. Hollowed ... [et al.].
Contributors: Hollowed, Anne B.; North Pacific Marine Science Organization.; Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (Program)
Series: PICES scientific report -- no. 9.
Publisher: North Pacific Marine Science Organization
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Sidney, B.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 59
ISBN-13: 9780969842095
Subjects: Climatic changes -- North Pacific Ocean.; Marine ecology -- North Pacific Ocean.; Ecological carrying capacity -- North Pacific Ocean.
Description: "... In the REX Workshop, we examined the possibility of applying the comparative approach to answering the scientific questions posed in the Climate Change and Carrying Capacity Implementation Plan. Participants were asked to consider the possibility of designing experiments that could be conducted in distant regions of the North Pacific with the expressed intent of testing hypotheses regarding climate impacts on the carrying capacity ... Participants were asked to review the four key scientific questions presented in the CCCC Implementation Plan: 1. What are the characteristics of climate variability, can interdecadal patterns be identified, how and when do they arise?  2. How do primary and secondary producers respond in productivity, and in species and size composition, to climate variability in different ecosystems of the subarctic Pacific?  3. How do life history patterns, distributions, vital rates and population dynamics of higher trophic level species respond directly and indirectly to climate variability?  4. How are subarctic Pacific ecosystems structured? Do higher trophic levels respond to climate variability solely as a consequence of bottom up forcing? Are there significant intratrophic level and top down effects on lower trophic level production and on energy transfer efficiencies? ..."--Introd.
Notes: Also available on the World Wide Web.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: GLOBEC Canada - Ecosystem Response to Climate Variability Activities of the China-GLOBEC Program; value: GLOBEC-Related Research Programs by Fisheries Research Institutes of Japan; value: Korean GLOBEC and GLOBEC-Like Programs; value: Review of Russian GLOBEC-Like Programs; value: United States GLOBEC and GLOBEC-Like Programs; value: Mid-water and Demersal Fish Breakout Session; value: Crustacean Breakout Session; value: Pelagic Fish Breakout Group Recommendations; value: Salmon Breakout Session; value: Forcing Breakout Session; value: Lower Trophic Level Breakout Session; value: Ecosystem Response Breakout Session; value: Summary of Ongoing Research Programs by Region.