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PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY
卷 79, 期 2-4, 页码 290-299出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2008.10.027
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Peruvian fisheries; Ecosystem-based management; Climate change; Upwelling; Environmental conditions; El Nino
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- Pew Institute for Ocean Science
The marine ecosystem located off the coast of central and northern Peru has stood as the world's champion producer, by far, of exploitable fish biomass, generally yielding more than 20 times the tonnage of fishery landings produced by other comparable regional large marine ecosystems of the world's oceans that operate under similar dynamic contexts and are characterized by comparable, or even greater, basic primary production. Two potentially contributing aspects are discussed from a framework of interregional comparative pattern recognition: (1) the advantageous low-latitude situation that combines strong upwelling-based nutrient enrichment with low wind-induced turbulence generation and relatively extended mean residence times within the favorable upwelling-conditioned near-coastal habitat and (2) the cyclic re-setting of the system by ENSO perturbations that may tend to interrupt malignant growth of adverse self-amplifying feedback loops within the nonlinear biological dynamics of the ecosystem. There is a developing scientific consensus that one of the more probable consequences of impending global climate changes will be a general slowing of the equatorial Pacific Walker Circulation and a consequent weakening of the Pacific trade wind system. Since the upwelling-favorable winds off Peru tend to flow directly into the Pacific southeast trade winds, a question arises as to the likely effect on the upwelling-producing winds that power the productivity of the regional coastal ecosystems of the Peru-Humboldt Current zone. It is argued that the effects will in fact be decoupled to the extent that upwelling-favorable winds will actually tend to increase off Peru. Data demonstrative of this decoupling are presented. A tendency for less intense El Nino episodes in the future is also suggested. These conclusions provide a framework for posing certain imponderables as to the future character of the Peruvian marine ecosystem and of the fisheries it supports. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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