Accepted Article This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1002/ecy.2760 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Running head: Nonstationary ecosystem relationships Nonstationary environmental and community relationships in the North Pacific Ocean Michael A. Litzow 1,2,8 , Lorenzo Ciannelli 3 , Patricia Puerta 3,4 , Justin J. Wettstein 3,5,6 , Ryan R. Rykaczewski 7 , and Michael Opiekun 7 1 College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Kodiak, AK 99615, USA 2 Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA 3 College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA 4 Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares, Palma de Mallorca, 07015, Spain 5 Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway 6 Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, 5020 Bergen, Norway 7 Department of Biological Sciences, Marine Science Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA 8 E-mail: mlitzow@alaska.edu