Stage Duration as an Emergent Property: Influence of Mortality and Variation in Environment on Copepod Population Dynamics
A key species in the Northwest Atlantic food web is Calanus finmarchicus, which provides an important food source for many marine animals. To better understand its ecosystem roles, obtaining detailed knowledge of its life processes, such as development and mortality, and the factors controlling them...
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ftdalhouse:oai:DalSpace.library.dal.ca:10222/73816 2023-05-15T15:47:59+02:00 Stage Duration as an Emergent Property: Influence of Mortality and Variation in Environment on Copepod Population Dynamics Kitan, Sandra Department of Engineering Mathematics & Internetworking Master of Science n/a Dr. William Phillips Dr. Farzaneh Naghibi Dr. Jinyu Sheng Dr. Gordon Fenton Not Applicable 2018-04-04T11:35:46Z http://hdl.handle.net/10222/73816 en eng http://hdl.handle.net/10222/73816 Copepoda Thesis 2018 ftdalhouse 2022-03-06T00:10:27Z A key species in the Northwest Atlantic food web is Calanus finmarchicus, which provides an important food source for many marine animals. To better understand its ecosystem roles, obtaining detailed knowledge of its life processes, such as development and mortality, and the factors controlling them is vital. Since pelagic systems are dynamic, variable, and advective, mortality cannot be measured in situ, and development is observed in constant laboratory conditions. Here, a series of modelling studies are conducted to investigate mortality and development separately, by applying and examining common methodologies and providing new approaches and recommendations, and explore the interaction of processes, by building an individual-based model to simulate the life history of C. finmarchicus. This model is presented with enhanced capabilities for coupling physical ocean data and tested with a case study that investigates the influence of environmental variability and mortality on simulated population dynamics in space and time. Thesis Calanus finmarchicus Northwest Atlantic Dalhousie University: DalSpace Institutional Repository |
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A key species in the Northwest Atlantic food web is Calanus finmarchicus, which provides an important food source for many marine animals. To better understand its ecosystem roles, obtaining detailed knowledge of its life processes, such as development and mortality, and the factors controlling them is vital. Since pelagic systems are dynamic, variable, and advective, mortality cannot be measured in situ, and development is observed in constant laboratory conditions. Here, a series of modelling studies are conducted to investigate mortality and development separately, by applying and examining common methodologies and providing new approaches and recommendations, and explore the interaction of processes, by building an individual-based model to simulate the life history of C. finmarchicus. This model is presented with enhanced capabilities for coupling physical ocean data and tested with a case study that investigates the influence of environmental variability and mortality on simulated population dynamics in space and time. |
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Department of Engineering Mathematics & Internetworking Master of Science n/a Dr. William Phillips Dr. Farzaneh Naghibi Dr. Jinyu Sheng Dr. Gordon Fenton Not Applicable |
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Stage Duration as an Emergent Property: Influence of Mortality and Variation in Environment on Copepod Population Dynamics |
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Stage Duration as an Emergent Property: Influence of Mortality and Variation in Environment on Copepod Population Dynamics |
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Stage Duration as an Emergent Property: Influence of Mortality and Variation in Environment on Copepod Population Dynamics |
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Stage Duration as an Emergent Property: Influence of Mortality and Variation in Environment on Copepod Population Dynamics |
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Stage Duration as an Emergent Property: Influence of Mortality and Variation in Environment on Copepod Population Dynamics |
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stage duration as an emergent property: influence of mortality and variation in environment on copepod population dynamics |
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Calanus finmarchicus Northwest Atlantic |
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Calanus finmarchicus Northwest Atlantic |
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