Registration and abstract submission open for the 23rd Danish Marine Science meeting/ 23. Dansk Havforskermøde (20-22 januar), hosted by Aarhus University and Tænketanken Hav.
Hans H. Jakobsen and I will be convening a session on "The pelagic ecosystem: Environmental drivers and structuring processes shaping spatial and temporal dynamics across scales".
Biodiversity and productivity in pelagic ecosystems are shaped by the spatial and temporal distribution of organisms, where size spans across seven orders of magnitude. Predicting interactions in the pelagic environment requires us to characterise how biological processes interact with and are shaped by the dynamic physical and chemical environment that ultimately governs the seasonal and spatial distributions. This session invites contributions covering aspects describing and explaining variation in pelagic marine ecosystems. These include characterisations of diversity (e.g. genetic, physiological, across and within species), how diversity varies in space and time, and the processes structuring this diversity (e.g. connectivity, predator-prey interactions, habitat suitability, etc.). Contributions covering any organism level (microbial, phytoplankton, zooplankton, fish, marine mammals) are welcome, and may focus on single species or dynamics across trophic levels.
Abstract submission ends 15 September. Hope to see you in Helsingør!