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The Census of Marine Life pilot project
PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF THE
ECOSYSTEMS OF THE NORTHERN MIDATLANTIC
www.mar-eco.no
International Steering Group
Norwegian Core Group
Component themes:
Demersal
nekton, DN
Public Outreach Group
Support projects:
Pelagic
nekton, PN
Data mining
Technology
Methods
Environment
Epibenthos
Zooplankton, Z
•bathymetry, substrate
•oceanography
International Steering Group
and Secretariat
Component projects:
DN
4
DN
2
DN
3
Support projects:
Z1
PN1
DN1
Public Outreach Group
Technology
Methods
Z4
PN2
Seabird &
mammal
study
Data mining
Z2
Environment
•bathymetry, substrate
•oceanography
National Consortia (UK, Norway, Germany, USA?)
Organisation and priority of
components
DN
2
DN
4
Seabird &
mammal
study
DN
3
PN2
1
Z1
PN1
DN1
Z4
Z2
2
3
Component projects
Zooplankton studies:
Co-ordinators: Olafur Asthorsson, Ulf Båmstedt
Z1:Distribution, abundance, and species composition of
zooplankton in cross-frontal and cross-ridge transects of the
mid-Atlantic Ridge. PIs: Tone Falkenhaug, Webjørn Melle (Norway)
Z2:Feeding 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)
Pelagic nekton studies:
Co-ordinators: Uwe Piatkowski, Olav Rune Godø
PN1:Longitudinal and latitudinal changes in mesopelagic/ bathypelagic
nektonic fauna (fish, cephalopods and crustaceans) along MAR.
PIs: Uwe Piatkowski (Germany), Tracey Sutton (USA)
PN2:Interactions 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)
Demersal nekton studies:
Co-ordinator: Franz Uiblein
DN1:Distribution patterns and species composition of demersal fishes
in relation to habitat variability on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. PIs: Franz
Uiblein (Austria), Ingvar Huse (Norway).
DN2:Spatial genetic structure of deep-sea fish
from the North Atlantic. PI: A. Rus Hoelzel (UK)
DN3:Epibenthic and Benthopelagic (Demersal) Invertebrate
communities, distribution and ecology. PI: David Billett (UK).
DN4: Life history studies of demersal fishes. PI: Maurice Clarke (Irel.)