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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt"><br>
<span style="background:white">Biology Department Seminar</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Thursday, July 18, 2024 – 12:00 Noon </span><br>
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<b><span style="background:white">Kelly Benoit-Bird</span></b><br>
<span style="background:white">Sr. Scientist and Research Chair, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute</span><br>
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<b><span style="background:white">Resolving the Food Paradox in the Sea</span></b><br>
<span style="background:white">Average concentrations of biota in the ocean are low, presenting a critical problem for ocean consumers. With high-resolution sampling, however, we find the ocean is peppered with narrow hotspots of organism activity. To determine
if these resource aggregations could provide a significant solution to the ocean’s food paradox, a conceptual graphical model was developed that facilitates comparisons of the role of patchiness in predator-prey interactions across taxa, size-scales, and ecosystems.
The model predicts that predators are more reliant on aggregated resources for foraging success when the average concentrations of resources is low, the size discrepancy between predator and prey is great, the predator has a high metabolic rate, and/or the
predator’s foraging time is limited. Size structure differences between marine and terrestrial food webs and a vast disparity in the overall mean density of their resources lead to the conclusion that high-density aggregations of prey are much more important
to the survival of oceanic predators than their terrestrial counterparts, shaping the foraging decisions that are available to an individual and setting the stage on which evolutionary pressures can act. Patches of plenty may be rare, but they play an outsized
role in behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary processes, particularly in the sea.</span><br>
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