Spatial and Temporal Operation of the Scotia Sea Ecosystem
Murphy, E. J. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7369-9196; Watkins, J.L.; Trathan, P.N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6673-9930; Reid, K.; Meredith, M.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7342-7756; Hill, S.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1441-8769; Thorpe, S.E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5193-6955; Johnston, N.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2211-1492; Clarke, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7582-3074; Tarling, G.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3753-5899; Collins, M.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7132-8650; Forcada, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2115-0150; Atkinson, A.; Ward, P.; Staniland, I.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2736-9134; Pond, D.W.; Cavanagh, R.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2474-9716; Shreeve, R.S.; Korb, R.E.; Whitehouse, M.J.; Rodhouse, P.G.; Enderlein, P.; Hirst, A.G.; Martin, A.R.; Briggs, D.R.; Cunningham, N.J.; Fleming, A.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-4527.
2012
Spatial and Temporal Operation of the Scotia Sea Ecosystem.
In: Rogers, Alex D.; Johnston, Nadine M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2211-1492; Murphy, Eugene J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7369-9196; Clarke, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7582-3074, (eds.)
Antarctic Ecosystems: An Extreme Environment in a Changing World.
Blackwell Publishing, 160-212.
Abstract/Summary
Analysis of the operation of ocean ecosystems requires an understanding of how the structure of the ecosystem is determined by interactions between physical, chemical and biological processes. Such analysis needs to consider the interactions across a wide range of spatial (approx. 10 m–10,000 km) and temporal (minutes to centuries) scales and trophic levels (primary producers to top predators) (Angel, 1994; Murphy et al., 1988;Werner et al., 2003). There are, however, few areas of the global ocean where there is sufficient knowledge to achieve such an integrated analysis (deYoung et al., 2004). Circulation patterns of the major ocean gyres, such as the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, involve movement of water masses through very different climatic regimes which favour distinctly different groups of organisms (Longhurst, 1998). Generating comprehensive views of the operation of oceanic ecosystems is complicated as a result of such heterogeneity in species distribution and ecosystem structure (Levin, 1990; Longhurst, 1998; Murphy et al., 1988). In contrast to other
| Item Type: | Publication - Book Section |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.1002/9781444347241.ch6 |
| Programmes: | BAS Programmes > Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - ) > Ecosystems BAS Programmes > Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - ) > Polar Oceans |
| NORA Subject Terms: | Marine Sciences |
| Date made live: | 06 Jun 2012 10:35 +0 (UTC) |
| URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/18276 |
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