Ecosystem Model of the Entire Beaufort Sea Marine Ecosystem: A Temporal Tool for Assessing Food-Web Structure and Marine Animal Populations from 1970 to 2014
The Beaufort Sea coastal-marine ecosystem is a 476,000 km2 area in the Arctic Ocean, which extends from -112.5 to -158.0° longitude to 67.5 to 75.0° latitude. Within this polar area the United States indigenous communities of Barrow, Kaktovik, and Nuiqsut, and the Canadian indigenous communities of...
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ftusouthflorida:oai:digitalcommons.usf.edu:msc_facpub-1260 2023-07-30T03:55:34+02:00 Ecosystem Model of the Entire Beaufort Sea Marine Ecosystem: A Temporal Tool for Assessing Food-Web Structure and Marine Animal Populations from 1970 to 2014 Suprenand, Paul M Ainsworth, Cameron H. Hoover, Carie 2018-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/261 https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/context/msc_facpub/article/1260/viewcontent/Suprenand_et_al_Ecosystem_model_of_the_Beaufort_Sea.pdf unknown Digital Commons @ University of South Florida https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/261 https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/context/msc_facpub/article/1260/viewcontent/Suprenand_et_al_Ecosystem_model_of_the_Beaufort_Sea.pdf default Marine Science Faculty Publications Beaufort Sea Arctic Climate Change Ecopath with Ecosim Ecological Model Nature Resource Management Life Sciences Marine Biology technical_report 2018 ftusouthflorida 2023-07-13T20:42:51Z The Beaufort Sea coastal-marine ecosystem is a 476,000 km2 area in the Arctic Ocean, which extends from -112.5 to -158.0° longitude to 67.5 to 75.0° latitude. Within this polar area the United States indigenous communities of Barrow, Kaktovik, and Nuiqsut, and the Canadian indigenous communities of Aklavik, Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk, Paulatuk, Ulukhaktok, and Sachs Harbour, subsist by harvesting marine mammals, fish, and invertebrates to provide the majority of their community foods. The Beaufort Sea coastal-marine ecosystem includes many specialized marine animals whose life history is tied to the sea ice, such as polar bears that rely on sea-ice for foraging activities and denning, or ice algae that attach to the seasonal cryosphere. Changes in sea-ice extent and sea surface temperature affect the ecosystem through losses of animal habitat, alterations to trophodynamics, and/or impacts to indigenous community harvesting. The present study focuses on developing a dynamic whole-ecosystem model that can be used for natural resource management. The resulting Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) temporal model (1970 to 2014) utilizes forcing and mediation functions that describe food web and relationships between sea-ice extent, SST, and Inuit community harvesting efforts. Following model calibrations, vulnerability estimates, trophic level validation, and sensitivity analyses, the Beaufort Sea model produces population and dietary changes over time that are analogous to observations. Changes in temporal whole-ecosystem trophodynamics highlight a potential climatological tipping point in 1993, followed by a biological tipping point in 1998. Report Aklavik Arctic Arctic Ocean Beaufort Sea Climate change ice algae inuit Inuvik Paulatuk Sachs Harbour Sea ice Ulukhaktok University of South Florida St. Petersburg: Digital USFSP Aklavik ENVELOPE(-135.011,-135.011,68.219,68.219) Arctic Arctic Ocean Inuvik ENVELOPE(-133.610,-133.610,68.341,68.341) Paulatuk ENVELOPE(-123.985,-123.985,69.325,69.325) Sachs Harbour ENVELOPE(-125.280,-125.280,71.975,71.975) Tuktoyaktuk ENVELOPE(-133.006,-133.006,69.425,69.425) Ulukhaktok ENVELOPE(-117.772,-117.772,70.736,70.736) |
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The Beaufort Sea coastal-marine ecosystem is a 476,000 km2 area in the Arctic Ocean, which extends from -112.5 to -158.0° longitude to 67.5 to 75.0° latitude. Within this polar area the United States indigenous communities of Barrow, Kaktovik, and Nuiqsut, and the Canadian indigenous communities of Aklavik, Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk, Paulatuk, Ulukhaktok, and Sachs Harbour, subsist by harvesting marine mammals, fish, and invertebrates to provide the majority of their community foods. The Beaufort Sea coastal-marine ecosystem includes many specialized marine animals whose life history is tied to the sea ice, such as polar bears that rely on sea-ice for foraging activities and denning, or ice algae that attach to the seasonal cryosphere. Changes in sea-ice extent and sea surface temperature affect the ecosystem through losses of animal habitat, alterations to trophodynamics, and/or impacts to indigenous community harvesting. The present study focuses on developing a dynamic whole-ecosystem model that can be used for natural resource management. The resulting Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) temporal model (1970 to 2014) utilizes forcing and mediation functions that describe food web and relationships between sea-ice extent, SST, and Inuit community harvesting efforts. Following model calibrations, vulnerability estimates, trophic level validation, and sensitivity analyses, the Beaufort Sea model produces population and dietary changes over time that are analogous to observations. Changes in temporal whole-ecosystem trophodynamics highlight a potential climatological tipping point in 1993, followed by a biological tipping point in 1998. |
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Ecosystem Model of the Entire Beaufort Sea Marine Ecosystem: A Temporal Tool for Assessing Food-Web Structure and Marine Animal Populations from 1970 to 2014 |
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Ecosystem Model of the Entire Beaufort Sea Marine Ecosystem: A Temporal Tool for Assessing Food-Web Structure and Marine Animal Populations from 1970 to 2014 |
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Ecosystem Model of the Entire Beaufort Sea Marine Ecosystem: A Temporal Tool for Assessing Food-Web Structure and Marine Animal Populations from 1970 to 2014 |
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Ecosystem Model of the Entire Beaufort Sea Marine Ecosystem: A Temporal Tool for Assessing Food-Web Structure and Marine Animal Populations from 1970 to 2014 |
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Ecosystem Model of the Entire Beaufort Sea Marine Ecosystem: A Temporal Tool for Assessing Food-Web Structure and Marine Animal Populations from 1970 to 2014 |
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ecosystem model of the entire beaufort sea marine ecosystem: a temporal tool for assessing food-web structure and marine animal populations from 1970 to 2014 |
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