Dear Colleagues We would like to bring to your attention to a session taking place during the Ocean Sciences conference next February (abstracts due 23 Sept):
ME009: Eulerian Versus Lagrangian Perspectives on Marine Ecosystem Change It is our ambition to assemble work at the interface between ocean connectivity, organismal adaptation to new environments, and effects on marine ecosystems by climate change. We encourage both interdisciplinary work that connect the dots, and more narrow studies that can highlight important factors in the interplay between physics and biology. You can find more information and register here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9601 The session abstract is as follows: Climate change is altering our oceans, be it through ocean acidification, warming temperatures, or altered ocean currents, and these changes will impact marine species and the food webs that support local and global fisheries. In the face of a changing ocean climate, marine species that currently occupy a particular place may move, may evolve and adapt to the new conditions, or they may die. In this session we invite contributions that address this issue using Eulerian and/or Lagragian perspectives. The session will specifically focus on work that addresses the impact of climate change on marine communities, and the ways in which communities may adapt, through the evolution of local types and/or the immigration of new types from other areas. Will warming waters drive certain species to extirpation, or will connectivity maintain local populations? What is the role of evolution relative to shifting species distributions? Which places are likely to be thermal-refugia, which places are likely to become biodiversity deserts? We anticipate presentations that address these questions to be both theoretical and empirical, and also to discuss what this means for us, in terms of the marine ecosystem services that we rely on for sustained wellbeing now and in the future. We look forward to seeing you all in New Orleans, Feb 2016! James Watson (Stockholm University) and Bror Jonsson (Princeton University) ---- James Watson Forskare / Researcher Stockholm Resilience Centre Visiting Scholar Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University Email: [email protected], [email protected] Pubs: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LHQ0BPkAAAAJ Web: www.princeton.edu/~jrwatson
