Benguela: Predicting a Large Marine Ecosystem

✍ Scribed by Vere Shannon, Gotthilf Hempel, Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, Coleen Moloney and John Woods (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 439
• Series: Large Marine Ecosystems 14
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a book which examines much of what we know and also what we don't know about the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem and its inherent variability. Building on recent work and exciting findings about the predictability of the Benguela and other coastal upwelling ecosystems, the book takes a look towards the future and highlights the difficulty of making predictions in such a complex and variable region. The book illustrates what scientists and managers from developed and developing countries can achieve by working together, and it lays a solid base upon which to build wise management and ensure sustainable use of the ecosystem. * Accompanying CD-ROM contains a wealth of useful supplementary information and spectacular animations of time series measurements and model outputs Essential reading and a valuable reference work on the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem Covers what we know about variability in the Benguela and its impacts Provides information on forecasting in the Benguela and offers insight in what is predictable and what is not Discusses key elements of a future integrated observing and forecasting system

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Series editor's introduction
Page v

Towards forecasting a changing ocean: An African partnership
Page vii
Salonão Jose Xirimbimbi, Abraham lyambo, Marthinus van Schalkwyk

Sponsorship page
Page ix

Foreword
Pages xi-xii
Michael John O'Toole

Contributors
Pages xiii-xviii

1 A plan comes together Original Research Article
Pages 3-10
Vere Shannon

2 Forecasting within the context of large marine ecosystems programs Original Research Article
Pages 11-34
Kenneth Sherman

3 The global ocean observing system for Africa (GOOS-Africa): Monitoring and predicting in large marine ecosystems Original Research Article
Pages 35-45
Justin Ahanhanzo

4 Large scale physical variability of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) Original Research Article
Pages 49-70
F.A. Shillington, C.J.C. Reason, C.M. Duncombe Rae, P. Florenchie, P. Penven

5 Low oxygen water (LOW) variability in the Benguela system: Key processes and forcing scales relevant to forecasting Original Research Article
Pages 71-90
Pedro M.S. Monteiro, Anja K. van der Plas

6 Variability of plankton with reference to fish variability in the Benguela current large marine ecosystem—An overview Original Research Article
Pages 91-124
Larry Hutchings, Hans M. Verheye, Jenny A. Huggett, Hervé Demarcq, Rudi Cloete, Ray G. Barlow, Deon Louw, Antonio da Silva

7 The variability and potential for prediction of harmful algal blooms in the southern Benguela ecosystem Original Research Article
Pages 125-146
Grant C. Pitcher, Scarla J. Weeks

8 Resource and ecosystem variability, including regime shifts, in the Benguela Current System Original Research Article
Pages 147-184
C.D. van der Lingen, L.J. Shannon, P. Cury, A. Kreiner, C.L. Moloney, J-P. Roux, F. Vaz-Velho

9 Modelling, forecasting and scenarios in comparable upwelling ecosystems: California, Canary and Humboldt Original Research Article
Pages 185-220
Pierre Fréon, Jürgen Alheit, Eric D. Barton, Souad Kifani, Patrick Marchesiello

10 Influences of large scale climate modes and agulhas system variability on the BCLME region Original Research Article
Pages 223-238
C.J.C. Reason, P. Florenchie, M. Rouault, J. Veitch

11 Developing a basis for detecting and predicting long-term ecosystem changes Original Research Article
Pages 239-272
A. Jarre, C.L. Moloney, L.J. Shannon, P. Fréon, C.D. van der Lingen, H.M. Verheye, L. Hutchings, J.-P. Roux, P. Cury

12 The requirements for forecasting harmful algal blooms in the Benguela Original Research Article
Pages 273-294
S. Bernard, R.M. Kudela, P. Franks, W. Fennel, A. Kemp, A. Fawcett, G.C. Pitcher

13 Low Oxygen Water (LOW) forcing scales amenable to forecasting in the Benguela ecosystem Original Research Article
Pages 295-308
P.M.S. Monteiro, A.K. van der Plas, G.W. Bailey, P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, C.M. Duncombe Rae, D. Byrnes, G. Pitcher, P. Florenchie, P. Penven, J. Fitzpatrick, H.U. Lass

14 Forecasting shelf processes of relevance to living marine resources in the BCLME Original Research Article
Pages 309-347
C.D. van der Lingen, P. Fréon, L. Hutchings, C. Roy, G.W. Bailey, C. Bartholomae, A.C. Cockcroft, J.G. Field, K.R. Peard, A.K. van der Plas

15 Environmental data requirements of maritime operations in the Benguela coastal ocean Original Research Article
Pages 349-372
M.L. Grundlingh, P.D. Morant, R.C. van Ballegooyen, A. Badenhorst, E. Gomes, L. Greyling, J. Guddal, I.T. Hunter, D.W. Japp, L. Maartens, K.R. Peard, G.G. Smith, C.K. Wainman

16 Towards a future integrated forecast system Original Research Article
Pages 375-385
G. Brundrit, C. Bartholomae, Q. Fidel, A. Johnson, J. Guddal

17 Forecasting a large marine ecosystem Original Research Article
Pages 387-399
John Woods

Index
Pages 401-410