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U.S. Globec: Nwa Georges Bank - Processes Controlling Abundance Of Dominant Copepod Species On Georges Bank: Local Dynamics And Large-Scale Forcing, Jeffrey A. Runge

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

A fundamental goal of Biological Oceanography is to understand how underlying biological-physical interactions determine abundance of marine organisms. For animal populations, it is well known that factors controlling survival during early life stages (i.e., recruitment) are strong determinants of adult population size, but understanding these processes has been difficult due to model and data limitations. Recent advances in numerical modeling, together with new 3D data sets, provide a unique opportunity to study the biological-physical processes controlling zooplankton population size. This project uses an existing state-of-the-art biological/physical numerical model (FVCOM) together with the recently processed large 3D data set from the …