Zooplankton control of climate change impacts on ocean food-webs

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Zooplankton are the critical link in marine food-webs between phytoplankton (microscopic plants) and higher level consumers (e.g., fish, seabirds). While widely accepted that climate-driven changes in zooplankton communities have played a key role in declines of fisheries and populations of marine birds and mammals, the processes that drive zooplankton response to climate change remain weakly resolved. Filling this knowledge gap is fundamental to: understanding ecosystem impacts of climate change, sustainable resource management, and fisheries conservation and policy, and represents my long-term program goal.