2010 Calanus Life History Workshop Data Set Priorities
Calanus data sources
US GLOBEC Pan-Regional Synthesis: Life histories of species in the genus Calanus in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans and responses to climate forcing
View an abstract of the proposed work here.
The GLOBEC Pan-Regional Synthesis group on Calanus life histories held a workshop in Portland, ME on 22 March 2010. We identified a number of data types as priorities for compilation, which are described below with links to the current lists (provided as Google document spreadsheet files).
There is a web form here to submit additions to these data sets, which can be found here.
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Data Types |
Rationale |
List |
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Egg Production Rate |
to determine the critical concentration (defined as 90% of the maximum value) of food which supports maximum egg production rate |
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Prosome-Weight Relationships |
to explore variability in these relationships across the range of the Calanus species |
To do |
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Lipid composition |
for various life stages, not only C5, at various points throughout the year |
To do |
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Abundance of dormant animals |
this was done for the eastern Atlantic (Heath et al. 2004) but should be done for the middle and western regions of the basin |
To do |
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Demographic time-series data |
to determine the timing and duration of dormancy for Calanus spp. throughout their range |
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Stage specific vertical distribution |
to add much needed depth information to the CPR data set |
To do |
The assembly of demographic time series and vertical distribution data is conducted in conjunction with the Pan-Regional Synthesis project of McGillicuddy et al. (see abstract here)
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