Regina’s rewritten abstract for HW11
A deterministic model is applied to the Gulf of Maine to estimate stage duration and production of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus. Since the model was originally developed for a Norwegian fjord (Miller and Tande, 1993), its parameters and equations were modified to represent more accurately the local conditions. The model considers only the effect of temperature on the development time. Therefore, various sources of local temperature data are used to explore interannual and spatial variations in stage duration and production. The model results were greatly affected not only by the different near-surface temperature regimes around the Gulf of Maine, but also by changing the egg production from a time-dependent to a temperature-dependent function. To better represent the biology of C. finmarchicus in the Gulf of Maine, further model tuning is required, such as the addition of food-dependent development and egg production functions.