Bilat - Response of trophic relationships to climate change in Sub-Arctic Seas

The workshop has the explicit aim to initiate comparative analysis of how climate variability and change affects spatial and temporal match-mismatch relationships in sub-Arctic marine ecosystems. The work will be done in several projects, and we aim at ev entually publishing at least two cooperative publications. The workshop will focus on marine fish populations, both because of their value as important economic resources and because of their roles as key organisms in the ecosystems. Cushing developed hi s match-mismatch hypothesis on fish/plankton relationships and there exist long time-series on fish and plankton that allow us to re-investigate this relationship. However, also fish-fish predation as well as seabirds and marine mammals may be included. The workshop will be a big step forward in merging and coordinating knowledge and we hope it will create a common ground for exchanging knowledge on ecosystem effects of climate change. The workshop and the output may also be an important contribution to future research directions.