Understanding the interactions and feedback mechanisms among species in marine communities is essential to the conservation and management of natural resources in the sea. Such interactions can mediate the distribution, abundance, and diversity of species within communities and across habitats, landscapes, and ecosystems. They include both direct effects -- predation, competition, mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism -- and numerous indirect effects caused by the primary species' mutual interactions with other taxa. Further, the strengths and directions of these interactions can depend on background abiotic conditions, a critically important consideration given the impacts that uninterrupted climate change will have on marine communities.
From a practical perspective, ecosystem approaches to ocean management will need to account for those interactions that drive variation at the scale at which management occurs and perhaps point to the scale at which it should operate. In this symposium, we will address these issues across multiple ecosystems within which fisheries are embedded with an eye to developing realistic approaches to ocean management.
The list of invited speakers appears here - http://www.marinelab.fsu.edu/mote/speakers.html
Participants not presenting papers or posters are welcome. Click here to register: http://www.marinelab.fsu.edu/mote/registration.html
Felicia C. Coleman, Ph. D. Chair, Steering Committee
Florida State University Coastal & Marine Laboratory www.marinelab.fsu.edu
3618 Coastal Highway, St. Teresa, FL 32358-2702
Phone: 850.697.4120, Email: fcoleman@fsu.edu
Kathy Houck, Assistant Email: khouck@fsu.edu PHONE: 850.697.4137
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