Just a few days left (September 23rd) to submit an abstract to an exciting new ecologically oriented session at the Ocean Sciences in New Orleans (Feb 2016).
ME016. Impacts of ecological interactions on marine ecosystem dynamics: New insights from models, theory, and field measurements Session ID#: 9373 Session Description: Ocean ecosystems make up the largest living space on the planet. Understanding the behavior, physiology, and evolution of marine organisms in the context of their chemical and physical environments and species interactions is key advancing our understanding of community and ecosystem functioning across systems. Multiple general concepts in ecology have originated from pelagic systems, including ecological stoichiometry, trophic cascades, and the match/mismatch hypothesis. However, a fundamental hurdle in advancing our understanding of ecological processes in the ocean remains the traditional boundary between ecology and oceanography. In this session, we seek to bring together those posing questions about pelagic ocean ecosystems, bridging empirical investigations with ecological theory and process models. We welcome both theoretical and empirical research addressing ecological interactions across a range of scales and trophic levels, with particular emphasis on the integration of field sampling, ecological theory, and/or modeling aimed to reveal processes structuring ocean ecosystems. Primary Chair: Clifton Brock Woodson, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States Chairs: Kelly J Benoit-Bird, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Adam Greer, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States and Steve Litvin, Hopkins Marine Station - Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, United States Index Terms: 4813 Ecological prediction [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL] 4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL] 4830 Higher trophic levels [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL] 4890 Zooplankton [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
