S1: Science
Board Symposium (¾
day)
Mechanisms of climate and human impacts on ecosystems
in marginal seas and shelf regions
Co-Convenors: Kuh Kim (SB), Michael J. Dagg (BIO), Yukimasa Ishida
(FIS), John E. Stein (MEQ), Michael G. Foreman (POC), Igor I. Shevchenko
(TCODE), Phillip R. Mundy (MONITOR), and Harold P. Batchelder and
Suam Kim (CCCC)
S8: MEQ/FIS Topic
Session (1 day)
Ecosystem indicators and models
Co-Convenors: Glen Jamieson (Canada), Xian-Shi Jin (China), Patricia
Livingston (U.S.A.), Tokio Wada (Japan), Vladimir I. Radchenko (Russia)
and Chang-Ik Zhang (Korea)
Ecosystem-based management (EBM) of resources
will require ways to monitor current conditions and predict future
states. Ecosystem indicators are single variables that reflect the
status of broad suites of management activities or environmental
conditions, and their assessment is key to monitoring the achievement
of EBM. Predictive ecosystem models can be used to hypothesize the
responses of an ecosystem to management actions, to assess the sensitivities
of indicators, and to highlight gaps in current knowledge. This
session will bring experts together to identify criteria for suitable
indicators and the utilities of predictive models, and to present
candidates of indicators and models that are actively in use in
PICES areas.