2001 BASS Workshop on the development of a conceptual model of the Pacific basin ecosystems

• Main Authors: Co-convenors Gordon A. Mcfarlane, Richard J. Beamish, Akihiko Yatsu, Andrei S
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Pacific; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.359.9857; http://www.pices.int/publications/scientific_reports/Report17/BASS.pdf

Task Team sponsored a symposium on the Ecosystem dynamics of the eastern and western subarctic gyres. The purpose was to bring together available information on the two gyres in a comparative framework. Topics included: 1) ocean responses to climate forcing, 2) nutrients and primary production, 3) structure of the lower trophic levels, the mesozooplankton communities, and the epipelagic nekton, 4) the role of midwater fishes, and 5) the importance of these areas to marine birds and mammals. Papers presented at the meeting were published in 1999, in a Progress in Oceanography special issue entitled Ecosystem Dynamics in the Eastern and Western gyres of the