A scientific result of the PICES Symposium on
'North Pacific Transitional Areas' (La Paz, Mexico, 2002) was the
identification of distinct latitudinal differences in ecosystem
structure and variability, including the distribution and productivity
of plankton and the recruitment of fish stocks. This session will
further explore latitudinal clines in life history strategies at
various scales of temporal variability in the eastern Pacific from
Mexico to Alaska, and in the western Pacific from China to Russia.
Presentations on the scales and mechanisms of physical variability
in these regions, and on clines in the distribution and productivity
of plankton, fish, birds, mammals and intertidal invertebrates,
are encouraged.