A study that utilized climate modeling to simulate the effects of predicted increases in water temperature and salinity as a result of climate change on C. finmarchicus of the eastern shelf of North America forecasts lower abundance of copepods. The decrease in favorable environmental conditions is expected to decrease the size and density of C. finmarchius, and will likely have negative effects on whales and other components of the food web that are inextricably tied to copepods. The impact of diapause and variation in seasonal productivity was not explicitly included as increasing model complexity and more accurate accounting for Calanus spp. metabolic processes during diapause is required. The importance of diapause timing with spring plankton blooms is well-established, suggesting that there is potential for additional population impacts as a result of climate change, which would further reverberate throughout the ecosystem.