Showing papers in "Journal of Marine Systems in 2006"

TL;DR: In this article, an exploited ecosystem from the continental shelf and upper slope of the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea was described by means of an Ecopath mass-balance model with the aim of characterising its functioning and structure and describing the ecosystem impacts of fishing.

TL;DR: In this article, a biogeochemical model of the Hooghly estuary was used to estimate the annual fluxes of inorganic nutrients in the Sundarbans mangrove forest.

TL;DR: Relationships between some traits and environmental conditions diverged within the two regions, with increases in fishing effort and shell content of the substratum being associated with low frequencies of occurrence of moderately mobile and moderately to highly flexible fauna within one region, but high frequencies in the other.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the hypothesis that Lophelia forms reefs in places where the encounter rate of food particles is sufficiently high and stable over long periods of time for continuous growth.

TL;DR: In this article, an upgraded and revised physically-biologically coupled, nested 3D model with 4 km grid size is applied to investigate the seasonal carbon flux and its interannual variability.

TL;DR: In this article, levels of heavy metals in coastal water, sediments and soft tissues of the gastropod limpet, Patella caerulea, and the bivalve, Barbatus barbatus, from seven different stations in the western coast of the Gulf of Suez were determined.

TL;DR: A continuous, high-resolution time series of zooplankton and hydrographic data was collected from Kongsfjorden between April and September 2002 using a sediment trap and instrumentation deployed on a mooring and demonstrated the close relationship between water mass advection and changes in zoop lankton community structure.

TL;DR: In this paper, a wide spectrum of hydro-meteorological and biogeochemical records in the Black Sea from the previous century possesses a robust climatic signature at interannual to interdecadal time scales.

TL;DR: In this article, a coupled physical-biogeochemical simulations in the water column is presented, which allows for a number of different statistical turbulence closure schemes, ranging from simple algebraic closures to two-equation turbulence models with algebraic second-moment closures.

TL;DR: In this article, a time-series study was conducted in the South China Sea (SCS) to understand how various types of physical forcing influence biogeochemical cycles in the water column.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structure and dynamics of the benthic invertebrate megafauna of the Southeastern Brazilian shelf were studied over a 2-year period and two regions presenting different oceanographic conditions, Ubatuba-SP and Cabo Frio-RJ were compared in terms of biomass, density of organisms and species richness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated temporal variations in marine macrobenthic community structure from 1980 to 2003 in high-arctic Kongsfjorden (Svalbard) based on analysis of annual photographs at a permanent rocky bottom station.

TL;DR: A seasonal climatology of the nutrient environment for waters off southwestern Australia with the intention of identifying spatial and seasonal characteristics of the nutrients environment and identifying situations where the shelf may be susceptible to anthropogenic nutrient stress is presented in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the temporal and spatial variability of downward particle fluxes in the Palamos submarine canyon, seven sediment traps were moored inside and in the vicinity of the canyon from March to November 2001.

TL;DR: The correlation patterns observed between chlorophyll concentration and seawater viscosity are suggested to suggest that the rheological properties of seawater are mainly driven by extracellular materials associated with colony formation and maintenance rather than by cell composition and standing stock.

TL;DR: In this article, a 3D coupled biophysical model ECOSMO (ECOSystem MOdel) has been developed, which is based on lower trophic level interactions between two phyto- and two zooplankton components.

TL;DR: In order to provide a better understanding of phytoplankton structure and their relationship with environmental parameters in typical maricultural areas in Southern China, observations were carried out to estimate the PHYTOPLANKTON structure and nutrients in eight stations in annual survey from July 1997 to June 1998 and three springs from 1998 to 2000 in Daya Bay, South China Sea as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a particle tracking individual-based model (IBM) coupled with a 3D hydrodynamic model was used to investigate how spatial variability in spawning and nursery grounds may influence transport and retention of sardine (Sardinops sagax) eggs and larvae in the southern Benguela ecosystem.

TL;DR: In this paper, a water column profile interpolation scheme was used to fit a continuous function (a tension spline) to a smoothed profile of vertical diffusivities at the x-y particle location.

TL;DR: Support for the size-dependent effect of turbulence on nutrient uptake will require further experiments and more sophisticated modelling, as the mechanisms to connect an increased nutrient flux towards cells with population growth and whether this process is size dependent are important in parameterizing the effects of turbulence in coupled physical–biological models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors calculated input of organic carbon to the unproductive, brackish water basin of the Gulf of Bothnia from rivers, point sources and the atmosphere.

TL;DR: In late summer 2002 and 2003, exceptionally warm inflow events of saline water were observed in the Baltic These warm saline waters were embedded in the halocline of the Bornholm Basin and caused a strong anomaly of the seasonal temperature cycle.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-week campaign of hydrodynamic observations at different spatial scales was undertaken in May/June 2003 as part of an interdisciplinary study, which revealed that the water column in Limfjorden switches periodically between stratified and mixed conditions in response to meteorological forcing.

TL;DR: In this article, the propagation of sea surface height signals in altimetry and output from a numerical model, OCCAM, were examined for the area to the south and east of Madagascar, which provides some of the source waters of the Agulhas Current.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ocean model (FANTOM) was developed to investigate the fate of selected persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the North Sea, where the main focus was on quantifying the distribution of POPs and their aquatic pathways.

TL;DR: In this article, the relative roles of heat and freshwater in controlling re-stratification are examined for each hydrographic zone, and it is shown that the simplest concept of solar warming generating spring stratification is appropriate for the Irminger Current and the central Irmingers Sea.

TL;DR: In this article, live benthic foraminifera in the shallow sediments from the muddy central axis of the Ria de Vigo were examined under two contrasting hydrographic conditions: downwelling and upwelling.

TL;DR: In this paper, the surface water CO 2 partial pressure (p CO 2 ) and the chlorophyll a fluorescence were performed in the Baltic Sea using a fully automated measurement system deployed on a cargo ship.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects caused by changes in tidal amplitude have been studied by analysing the characteristics of surface water masses flowing through the Strait of Gibraltar during several cruises carried out in 2002 and 2003.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the morphology of the main fronts in the southwest Indian Ocean, as a part of the Indian pilot expedition to the Southern Ocean on board ORV Sagar Kanya.