PowerPointpresentasjon

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The Census of Marine Life pilot project PATTERNS
AND PROCESSES OF THE ECOSYSTEMS OF THE NORTHERN
MID-ATLANTIC
www.mar-eco.no
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International Steering Group
Norwegian Core Group
Public Outreach Group
Component themes
Support projects
Data mining
Pelagic nekton, PN
Demersal nekton, DN
Technology Methods

• Environment
• bathymetry, substrate
• oceanography

Epibenthos
Zooplankton, Z
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International Steering Group and Secretariat
Public Outreach Group
Component projects
Support projects
Data mining
Technology Methods

• Environment
• bathymetry, substrate
• oceanography

National Consortia (UK, Norway, Germany, USA?)
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Organisation and priority of components
PN1
Z1
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DN1
 
DN2
DN4
PN2
Z2
Z4
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Seabird mammal study
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DN3
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Component projects
Zooplankton studies Co-ordinators Olafur
Asthorsson, Ulf Båmstedt Z1Distribution,
abundance, and species composition of
zooplankton in cross-frontal and cross-ridge
transects of the mid-Atlantic Ridge. PIs Tone
Falkenhaug, Webjørn Melle (Norway)   Z2Feeding
behaviour and swimming mode of gelatinous
zooplankton and nekton. PIs Ulf Båmstedt
(Sweden), Marsh Youngbluth (USA)   Z4 Trophic
structure of major copepods, euphausids and fish
larvae across the mid-Atlantic Ridge. PI Asthor
Gislasson (Iceland)
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Pelagic nekton studies Co-ordinators Uwe
Piatkowski, Olav Rune Godø   PN1Longitudinal and
latitudinal changes in mesopelagic/
bathypelagic nektonic fauna (fish, cephalopods
and crustaceans) along MAR. PIs Uwe Piatkowski
(Germany), Tracey Sutton (USA) PN2Interactions
of mesopelagic and bathypelagic fauna with the
benthopelagic community associated with MAR
seamounts/ slopes. PI Åge Høines (Norway), Bernd
Christiansen (Germany).  
Associated study (PN3) Cetacean and seabird
distribution, migration and behaviour (Skov,
Nøttestad, Waring)
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Demersal nekton studies Co-ordinator Franz
Uiblein DN1Distribution patterns and species
composition of demersal fishes in relation to
habitat variability on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
PIs Franz Uiblein (Austria), Ingvar Huse
(Norway).   DN2Spatial genetic structure of
deep-sea fish from the North Atlantic. PI A. Rus
Hoelzel (UK)   DN3Epibenthic and Benthopelagic
(Demersal) Invertebrate communities,
distribution and ecology. PI David Billett
(UK).   DN4 Life history studies of demersal
fishes. PI Maurice Clarke (Irel.)