Climate Regime Effects on Pacific Herring Growth Using Coupled Nutrient-Phytoplankton-Zooplankton and Bioenergetics Models

Abstract We used a nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton (NPZ) model coupled to a fish bioenergetics model to simulate the weight-at-age responses of Pacific herring Clupea pallasii to climate regimes. The NPZ model represents the daily dynamics of the lower trophic levels by simulating the uptake and recycling dynamics of nitrogen and silicon and the photosynthesis and grazing interactions of multiple functional groups of phytoplankton and zooplankton. The bioenergetics model simulates the number and mean weight of Pacific herring for each of 10 age-classes. Three zooplankton groups simulated in the NPZ model provide estimates of the prey used to determine the consumption component of the herring bioenergetics model. We used a spawner-recruit relationship to estimate the number of new age-1 individuals joining the herring population every year. The coupled models were applied to the coastal upwelling area off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Model simulations were performed to isolate the effects of each...

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