Constructing end-to-end budgets for the Georges Bank ecosystem ...

• Main Authors: Steele, J., Bisagni, J., Collie, J., Fogarty, M., Gifford, D., Link, J., Sieracki, M., Sullivan, B, Beet, A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: ASC 2005 - M - Theme session 2024
• Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics; North West Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.25350241; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Constructing_end-to-end_budgets_for_the_Georges_Bank_ecosystem/25350241

No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Oceanographic regimes on the continental shelf display a great range in the time scales of physical exchange, biochemical processes and trophic transfers. The close surface-toseabed physical coupling at intermediate scales –weeks to months – means that the open ocean paradigm of a relatively autonomous microbial loop is inadequate. But purely topdown trophic depictions are insufficient to constrain a system subject to physical forcing as well as fishing. These processes are found on most continental shelves but are particularly important on Georges Bank in the north-west Atlantic where the weeks-tomonths regime is dominant in relative area and in productivity. ...