The Effects of Temporal Variation in Upper Ocean Processes on Benthic Boundary Layer Biology and Material Flux Paul Snelgrove Anna Metaxas Claudio DiBacco Don Deibel Alex Hay Brian Bornhold Paul Hill Benthos Larvae Hyperbenthos Bioturbation Microbial processes Boundary layer flow Sediment Verena Tunnicliffe Kim Juniper Grant Ferris Phil Archambault Gaston Desrosiers Doug Schillin ger
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The Effects of Temporal Variation in Upper Ocean Processes on Benthic
Boundary Layer Biology and Material Flux
Paul Snelgrove
Anna Metaxas
Claudio DiBacco
Don Deibel
Alex Hay
Brian Bornhold
Paul Hill
Benthos
Larvae
Hyperbenthos
Bioturbation
Microbial processes
Boundary layer flow
Sediment /material flux
Verena Tunnicliffe
Kim Juniper
Grant Ferris
Phil Archambault
Gaston Desrosiers
Doug Schillinger
•How does material flux (quality and quantity) through canyon systems relate to boundary layer flow on daily, seasonal, and event-driven (e.g. slumping) time scales?
•How does flux of organic material (quality, quantity mean and variance) through canyon systems influence faunal response (community structure, spawning, bioturbation) of benthos, hyperbenthos, larvae, and microbes on daily to event-driven (e.g. slumping) and extended (e.g. regime shift) time scales?
•How does upper water column variability influence deep-sea systems on multiple time scales?
1. How do the HBZ, larvae, benthos and material flux respond to seasonal and spin-off eddy driven variability in Barkley Canyon, and do episodic changes in the physical regime strongly influence material flux and biological response?
2. *Do these topographic features support a specialized HBZ and benthic fauna, enhanced biomass, larger individuals, differences in feeding mode and activity, and a source of organisms (e.g. larvae) for adjacent environments?
3. *Are HBZ and benthic faunal responses to flux events in shallower areas more rapid than in deeper areas, and are there any structural differences in the response (e.g. types of species, diversity etc.) and time lags?
*Note that low level of instrumentation will make this question primarily
surface ship sampling based for biological responses.