Aquatic ecosystems will be studied to document ecosystem dynamics and the role specific habitats have for important (exploited, keystone) selected species.  Activities will include determining how habitat availability varies over time and the effect this has on species, and documenting how species respond to human impacts on habitats.  Projects currently underway include Queen Charlotte Islands and Central Coast marine plant response to experimental urchin perturbation, eel grass bed delineation around Vancouver Island, and the habitat needs of different Dungeness crab life history stages.

For more information regarding this study, please contact:
G. Jamieson, Fisheries and Oceans, Pacific Biological Station
3190 Hammond Bay Road, Nanaimo BC Canada V9R 5K6
Phone 250 756 7223, fax 250 756 7138, email jamiesong@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

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