Pacific Northwest Coastal Ecosystem.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * PDO Pacific Decadal Oscillation, positive warm high productivity Nyctiphanes crustacean krill Doliolum denticulatum a warm water zooplankton Salps are very abundant tunicates that decimate plankton and have boom-bust cycles, fastest reproducing multi-cellular animal * * * * * Shallow bays provide refuges for sea otters from Orcas Sea otters in metapopulation Populations semi-isolated in shallow bays Orcas pick off migrants between bays Some bays are source, others sink habitat Genetic and population dynamics of sea otters transformed by social-economic for