Simulating Productivity Changes of Epipelagic, Mesopelagic, and Bathypelagic Taxa Using a Depth-Resolved, End-to-End Food Web Model for the Oceanic Gulf of Mexico
March 01, 2024
Using new biomass datasets, we developed a depth-resolved food web model to better understand the trophic dynamics of the oceanic Gulf of Mexico.
Open-ocean and deep-sea ecosystems can be difficult to model due to the challenges of incorporating important dynamics such as diel vertical migration and particle sinking, as well as the absence of long-term datasets for deep-sea taxa abundance, distribution, and physiological parameters. The data collection that followed the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill provided the unique opportunity to model the oceanic Gulf of Mexico in a way that was not previously possible.
Calhoun-Grosch S, Ruzicka J, Robinson KL, Wang VH, Sutton T, Ainsworth C, Hernandez F 2024. Simulating productivity changes of epipelagic, mesopelagic, and bathypelagic taxa using a depth-resolved, end-to-end food web model for the oceanic Gulf of Mexico Ecological Modelling, Volume 489,110623.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110623.