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TI Movement Shapes the Structure of Fish Communities Along a Cross-Shore Section in the California Current
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AF Guiet, Jérôme
   Bianchi, Daniele
   Maury, Olivier
   Barrier, Nicolas
   Kessouri, Fayçal
AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:2;5:1,3;
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C1 Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
   MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Sète, France
   Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, CA, United States
C2 UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES, USA
   IRD, FRANCE
   SCCWRP, USA
UM MARBEC
IN WOS Cotutelle UMR
   DOAJ
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 3.7
TC 1
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00750/86224/91516.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00750/86224/91517.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;California Current;size spectrum;community composition;swimming;marine ecosystem model;pelagic fish
AB Pelagic fish communities are shaped by bottom-up and top-down processes, transport by currents, and active swimming. However, the interaction of these processes remains poorly understood. Here, we use a regional implementation of the APex ECOSystem Model (APECOSM), a mechanistic model of the pelagic food web, to investigate these processes in the California Current, a highly productive upwelling system characterized by vigorous mesoscale circulation. The model is coupled with an eddy-resolving representation of ocean currents and lower trophic levels, and is tuned to reproduce observed fish biomass from fisheries independent trawls. Several emergent properties of the model compare realistically with observations. First, the epipelagic community accounts for one order of magnitude less biomass than the vertically migratory community, and is composed by smaller species. Second, the abundance of small fish decreases from the coast to the open ocean, while the abundance of large fish remains relatively uniform. This in turn leads to flattening of biomass size-spectra away from the coast for both communities. Third, the model reproduces a cross-shore succession of small to large sizes moving offshore, consistent with observations of species occurrence. These cross-shore variations emerge in the model from a combination of: (1) passive offshore advection by the mean current, (2) active swimming toward coastal productive regions to counterbalance this transport, and (3) mesoscale heterogeneity that reduces the ability of organisms to return to coastal waters. Our results highlight the importance of passive and active movement in structuring the pelagic food web, and suggest that a representation of these processes can help to improve the realism in simulations with marine ecosystem models. 
PY 2022
PD FEB
SO Frontiers In Marine Science
SN 2296-7745
PU Frontiers Media SA
VL 9
UT 000760695700001
DI 10.3389/fmars.2022.785282
ID 86224
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