Individual-based models of copepod populations in coastal upwelling regions: implications of physiologically and environmentally influenced diel vertical migration on demographic success and nearshore retention
Authored by HP Batchelder, CA Edwards, TM Powell
Date Published: 2002
DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6611(02)00035-6
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United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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Abstract
We link a two-dimension coastal upwelling circulation
hydrodynamic-ecosystem (NPZ) model with an individual-based model (IBM)
for an intermediate sized (ca. 2.5 mm) copepod capable of diel vertical
migration (DVM) at larger sizes. The NPZ model is that of Franks, Wroblewski and Flierl (1986), with the zooplankton state variable
parameterized for macrozooplankton. IBM simulations are done with
different scenarios for behavioral responses; the interaction of the
organisms with the circulation is evaluated by examining
growth/development, reproduction, survival and distribution. Since ocean
productivity in coastal upwelling systems is greatest nearshore, zooplankton production is favored by nearshore retention. Model results, using an idealized, intermittently wind-forced, upwelling circulation, indicate that non-migrating copepods are flushed from the nearshore
system in offshore zonal surface flow; highest population abundances
occur offshore, in a region of relatively low food resources.
Conversely, migrating copepods interact with the stratified zonal flow
within the upwelling system and are retained nearshore when the
amplitude of the DVM is sufficient to place the individuals in
near-bottom onshore flow during the day. Environmental features, like
deep-extending food resources, and physiological controls, like
satiation or body size, that permit copepods to remain deeper, or spend
more time away from the surface, favor nearshore retention. Diel
vertical migration is one mechanism, which may permit animals to exploit
favorable habitats located nearshore in upwelling systems. (C) 2002
Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Ecosystem model
Continental-shelf
North-atlantic
Calanus-finmarchicus
Random-walk models
Lagrangian ensemble model
Chlorophyll maximum
Plankton
processes
Metridia-pacifica
Transition zone