Modeling the effects of environmental variability on marine zooplankton dynamics and production

气候变化正在深刻影响海洋生态系统，从食物链底部的初级生产者到鱼类和鲸鱼等大型捕食者。我们需要能够预测未来的变化，以便可持续地管理我们在生态和经济上具有重要意义的海洋资源，包括价值数十亿美元的渔业。在这方面，必须了解气候如何影响海洋浮游动物的动态和生产，因为它们是海洋食物链的关键环节，它们作为捕食者和猎物的作用调节着海洋生态系统的结构和功能。这项工作将开发和应用模型，以量化环境变化如何影响海洋浮游动物的种群动态，目标是推进浮游动物生态学，提高预测能力，并为决策者和环境管理人员提供重要信息。

Climate change is profoundly affecting marine ecosystems, from the primary producers at the bottom of the food chain to large predators like fish and whales. We need to be able to anticipate future changes in order to sustainably manage our ecologically and economically important marine resources, including multi-billion dollar fisheries. In this regard, it is critical to understand how climate influences the dynamics and production of marine zooplankton, as they are key links in marine food chains, and their roles as both predator and prey regulate marine ecosystem structure and function. This work will develop and apply models to quantify how changes in the environment affect the population dynamics of marine zooplankton, with the goals of advancing zooplankton ecology, improving predictive capabilities and providing crucial information to policy makers and environmental managers.