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Title: Potential impacts of ocean acidification on the Puget Sound food web (NCEI Accession 0134852)
Abstract: The ecosystem impacts of ocean acidification (OA) were explored by imposing scenarios designed to mimic OA on a food web model of Puget Sound, a large estuary in the northwestern USA. Productivity of functional groups that contain mostly calcifiers was decreased while still allowing other species groups to respond to the scenarios in a dynamic way through indirect effects. Results focus on changes in ecosystem services and structure. Sometimes, the direct and indirect effects of OA countered each other due to interactions between predators and prey within the food web, leading to little change in the food web. In other cases, direct and indirect effects caused greater change in the food web than anticipated from direct effects alone. Results were strongly affected by the group on which OA was directly imposed, with changes in copepod productivity being the most influential. While there is much uncertainty in our predictions, focusing on the complex interactions among species and between species and their environment will yield better understanding of how ecosystems may respond to OA.
Date received: 20151005
Start date: 20090701
End date: 20130317
Seanames: Puget Sound
West boundary: -122.39
East boundary: -112.68
North boundary: 48.16
South boundary: 27.27
Observation types: model output
Instrument types: documentation only - no instrument type
Datatypes: FISH BIOMASS
Submitter: Busch, D. Shallin
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Contributing projects: OADS, OAP
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Metadata version: 2
Keydate: 2015-10-06 17:41:01+00
Editdate: 2016-02-02 15:47:58+00