Modeling Ocean Ecosystems: The PARADIGM Program
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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.
Date issued
2006-03Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary SciencesJournal
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
Version: Final published version
ISSN
1042-8275