The CFAME (Climate Forcing and Marine Ecosystems)
Task Team is developing new theoretical and mathematical frameworks
to extend the traditional single species concept of carrying capacity
into the multi-species and ecosystem domains. Three major ecosystems
of the North Pacific were selected for this approach: Sea of Okhotsk,
California Current System and East China/Yellow Sea. For each ecosystem
the Task Team will review the physical processes that define an
ecosystem, build an overview of dominant species across trophic
levels, and describe how the population dynamics of these species
have changed over time. The conceptual linkages between the physical
processes and food-web structures will allow a comparison of varying
responses of the different North Pacific marine ecosystems to basin-wide
climate forcing events. This workshop is a continuation of work
that was initiated at a CFAME workshop in January 2006 (Tokyo, Japan).
It will focus on key species data for the East China/Yellow Sea
and Sea of Okhotsk regions, to facilitate inter-comparisons among
the three target ecosystems.
Invited speakers: Victor Lapko (Sakhalin Research
Institute of Fisheries & Oceanography (SakhNIRO), Russia), Vera
Agostini (University of Miami, U.S.A.) and Young-Shil Kang (National
Fisheries Research & Development Institute, Korea)