Official website: http://marine.magnet.fsu.edu/mote/
Complete Program: http://marine.magnet.fsu.edu/mote/program.html
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.
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