2005), The importance of episodic weather events to the ecosystem of the Bering Sea shelf

• Main Authors: Nicholas A. Bond, E. Overland
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Theragra chalcogramma; Chionoecetes bairdi
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.496.1913; http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/foci/publications/2005/bondS476.pdf

Climate variability on decadal time scales is generally recognized to influence high-latitude marine popula-tions. Our recent work in studying air–sea interactions in the Bering Sea suggests that interannual to decadal climate variability is important through its modulation of the frequencies and magnitudes of weather events on intraseasonal time scales. We hypothesize that it is these weather events that directly impact the marine ecosystem of the Bering Sea shelf. The linkages between the event-scale weather and the ecosystem are illustrated with three examples: walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), Tanner crabs (Chionoecetes bairdi), and coccolithophorid phytoplankton (Emiliania huxleyi). We hypothesize that the strong recruitment