Published

Pleuronocodes planipes, the pelagic red crab, which increases markedly in abundance in the CCE region during most El Niños.
Credit: M. Stukel

California Current Ecosystem LTER researchers published a cluster of 5 papers in Deep-Sea Research (vol. 140, Oct. 2018) that analyzed biotic responses to two successive perturbations of the California Current pelagic ecosystem: the Warm Anomaly of 2014-15 followed by El Niño of 2015-16. These studies drew on 12 years of LTER process studies and an analysis of 66-year records from CalCOFI to develop a quantitative basis for forecasting future responses of biotic processes including primary production, zooplankton community composition, and carbon export.

 

Learn more

  1. Ohman MD. 2018. Introduction to collection of papers on the response of the southern California Current Ecosystem to the Warm Anomaly and El Niño, 2014–16. Deep Sea Research Part I. doi: 10.1016/j. dsr.2018.08.011 (5 papers).

Contact

Mark Ohman
mohman@ucsd.edu

Posted:  July 15, 2020