U.S. GLOBal Ocean ECosystems Dynamics

Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) is the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) core project responsible for understanding how global change will affect the abundance, diversity and productivity of marine populations. The programme was initiated by SCOR and the IOC of UNESCO in 1991, to understand how global change will affect the abundance, diversity and productivity of marine populations comprising a major component of oceanic ecosystems. The aim of GLOBEC is to advance our understanding of the structure and functioning of the global ocean ecosystem, its major subsystems, and its response to physical forcing so that a capability can be developed to forecast the responses of the marine ecosystem to global change. U.S. GLOBEC Programm includes the Georges Bank / NW Atlantic Programm, the Northeast Pacific Programm and the Southern Ocean Program.

全球海洋生态系统动力学（GLOBEC）是国际地圈-生物圈计划（IGBP）的核心项目，致力于探究全球变化如何影响海洋生物群落的丰富度、多样性和生产力。该项目由科学委员会（SCOR）和联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）的海洋事务国际委员会（IOC）于1991年发起，旨在理解全球变化对构成海洋生态系统主要组成部分的海洋生物群落的丰富度、多样性和生产力的影响。GLOBEC的目标是深化我们对全球海洋生态系统结构、功能及其对物理强迫响应的理解，以便开发出预测海洋生态系统对全球变化响应的能力。美国GLOBEC项目包括乔治银行/西北大西洋项目、东北太平洋项目和南大洋项目。