Spatial and Temporal Operation of the Scotia Sea Ecosystem

• Main Authors: Murphy, E. J., Watkins, J.L., Trathan, P.N., Reid, K., Meredith, M.P., Hill, S.L., Thorpe, S.E., Johnston, N.M., Clarke, A., Tarling, G.A., Collins, M.A., Forcada, J., Atkinson, A., Ward, P., Staniland, I.J., Pond, D.W., Cavanagh, R.A., 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.
• Other Authors: Rogers, Alex D., Johnston, Nadine M., Murphy, Eugene J., Clarke, Andrew
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Blackwell Publishing 2012
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Scotia Sea; Pacific; Levin; Longhurst; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/18276/

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) an...