Hiroko Kato Solvang

?Mathematical formulae have been encoded as MathML and are displayed in this HTML version using MathJax in order to improve their display. Uncheck the box to turn MathJax off. This feature requires Javascript. Click on a formula to zoom. Abstract Ocean environments and their services face a plethora of stressors of human origin, where knowledge of effects and their probability is limited, requiring expert opinion for risk assessment.

1 INTRODUCTION Recent climate change and fluctuations in the environmental conditions of oceans have affected the spatial distribution of both zooplankton and fish species known to be the prey of marine mammals. Investigating the associations among biological communities and oceanographic factors is important for exploring connections or cooperative links in the ecosystem, which may in turn further clarify these relationships.