Quantifying the role of salps in marine food webs and organic carbon export

量化樽海鞘在海洋食物网和有机碳出口中的作用

• 批准号: DP0880078
• 负责人: Prof Iain Suthers
• 金额: $ 17.32万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0880078
• 关键词: Quantifying; role; salps; marine; food

Australia has recently committed significant resources to the observation and forecasting of ocean temperature and circulation that will vastly improve the understanding of environmental forcing of regional scale biological processes. This project will use ocean circulation hindcasts, ship-board measurements and laboratory studies to capture the dynamics of the zooplankton community, and in particular a fast-growing class of gelatinous zooplankton, the salps, in the waters off southeast Australia. During bloom events, salps can alter the functioning of marine ecosystems. This project will quantify the impact of salp blooms on fish resources and ocean uptake of carbon in southeast Australian waters.

澳大利亚最近投入了大量资源来观测和预测海洋温度和环流，这将极大地提高对区域尺度生物过程的环境强迫的理解。该项目将利用海洋环流后报、船上测量和实验室研究来捕捉浮游动物群落的动态，特别是澳大利亚东南部海域快速生长的胶状浮游动物——樽海鞘。在水华事件期间，樽海鞘可以改变海洋生态系统的功能。该项目将量化樽海鞘繁殖对澳大利亚东南部水域鱼类资源和海洋碳吸收的影响。