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Special
Session at ASLO Summer Meeting 2005
Dear Colleague,
Louis Legendre and I are convening a special session at the ASLO
Summer Meeting 2005 (A Pilgrimage Through Global Aquatic Sciences),
Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 19-24 June 2005 http://www.aslo.org/meetings/santiago2005/
The session (Session SS15) is entitled Food Webs End-to-end, Including
the Ecosystem Approach to Living Marine Resources and its description
is below. The deadline for the submission of abstracts and Student
Travel Grant applications is 1st February 2005. Louis and I invite
you to contribute a paper to this session, and we look forward to
seeing you in Santiago de Compostela this coming June. Please pass
this message to other interested colleagues and students.
Best regards, Richard and Louis
---------- SS15 Food Webs End-to-end, Including the Ecosystem Approach
to Living Marine Resources
Organizers: Richard B. Rivkin, Memorial University of Newfoundland,
Canada, (rrivkin@mun.ca) and Louis Legendre, Villefranche Oceanography
Laboratory, France, (legendre@obs-vlfr.fr)
The management and sustainable use of living marine resources depends
on the quantitative understanding of (a) the recruitment, growth
and mortality of species, (b) the channelling of energy and organic
matter through the autotrophic and heterotrophic components of the
food web to the marine resources and (c) the flux and recycling
of elements from the food web back to primary producers and downward
to the deep ocean. The ecosystem-scale consideration of living marine
resources is necessary to developing quantitative approaches to
complex ecosystems. The characterization, analysis and modelling
of marine pelagic ecosystems is generally conducted along three
distinct approaches, i.e. pelagic ecosystems, biogeochemistry and
ecosystem approach to marine resources. This Special Session will
bring together the three communities, to compare and exchange concepts
and results from field work, laboratory experiments and modelling
exercises, with the goal of fostering integrative approaches to
marine pelagic ecosystems and living resources.
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