Modeling Ocean Ecosystems: The PARADIGM Program
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Rothstein-2006-Modeling Ocean ecosystems.pdf
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Author(s)
Rothstein, Lewis M.
Cullen, John J.
Abbott, Mark
Chassignet, Eric P.
Denman, Ken
Doney, Scott C.
Ducklow, Hugh
Fennel, Katja
Haidvogel, Dale
Hofmann, Eileen
Date Issued
March 2006
Journal
Oceanography
Publisher
The Oceanography Society
Citation
Rothstein, Lewis et al. “Modeling Ocean Ecosystems: The PARADIGM Program.” Oceanography 19.1 (2006): 22–51. Copyright 2006 by The Oceanography Society
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Final published version
Abstract
The role of the oceans in Earth systems ecology, and the effects of climate variability on the ocean and its ecosystems, can be understood only by observing, describing, and ultimately predicting the state of the ocean as a physically forced ecological and biogeochemical system. This is a daunting but exciting challenge, because the ocean-atmosphere system is dynamically linked, and oceanic habitats are both diverse and complex, providing tremendous variety in environmental conditions and associated life forms. And paradoxically, as we learn more and more about ocean life, for example, through the genomics revolution (Doney et al., 2004), the number of unanswered questions increases.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2006.89
