Modelling and forecasting long-term dynamics of Western Baltic macrobenthic fauna in relation to climate signals and environmental change |
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Authors: | Joachim Grger Heye Rumohr |
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Institution: | aSchool for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts, 706 South Rodney French Boulevard, New Bedford, MA 02744-1221, USA;bLeibniz-Institute for Marine Sciences, IfM-GEOMAR, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, D-24105 Kiel, Germany |
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Abstract: | Long-term macrobenthos data from Kiel Bight in the Western Baltic collected between 1968 and 2000 have been correlated with the winter NAO index (North Atlantic Oscillation Index) and other environmental data such as temperature, salinity and oxygen content in the bottom water in order to detect systematic patterns related to so far unexplained abiotic signals in the dynamics of zoobenthic species assemblages. The benthos data come from a cluster of five stations (Süderfahrt/ Millionenviertel) in Kiel Bay. Our investigations concentrated on the macrobenthic dynamics with a focus on the number of species m− 2 (species richness). Using logarithms and the time series analysis approach of Box/Jenkins (ARIMA modelling, transfer function modelling) it was shown that species richness was strongly influenced by the winter NAO (adjusted for a linear time trend within the 1968-2000 period) and salinity (with a shift/lag of four years). Bootstrapping experiments (i.e. sampling from the error process) and analysis of prediction power (by means of the one- or more-years leaving-out method) showed that the parameter estimates behaved in a stable way, leading to a relatively robust model. |
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Keywords: | Macrobenthos Long-term dynamics Climate NAO Western Baltic Model |
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