New Article: Match-mismatch dynamics in the Norwegian-Barents Sea system

Published this month in Marine Ecology Progress Series, we develop and apply a new match-mismatch metric to estimate the spatio-temporal overlap between Northeast Arctic cod and their prey in the Norwegian-Barents Sea. We show the new overlap metric can explain up to 29% of cod recruitment at age 3 years.

The study was led by Sofia Ferreira (Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Norway), and in collaboration with Joël Durant & Leif C. Stige (Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Norway), Bjarte Bogstad (Institute of Marine Research, Norway), and Natalia Yaragina & Irina Prokopchuk (Polar branch of Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography).

This work was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant to Ferreira as well as the Research Council of Norway and an AIAS-COFUND Fellowship funded through the Aarhus University Research Foundation & the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme, Marie-Curie Actions.

You can find the open-access article here.