Towards A Better Integration of the Sediment Biogeochemistry in the Modelling of the Coastal Systems

José Fortes Lopes
Additional contact information
José Fortes Lopes: CESAM, Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Oceanography & Fisheries Open Access Journal, 2018, vol. 7, issue 3, 52-56

Abstract: Ecological models have been signficantly improved during the last decades, leading to more realistic predictions of coastal water processes under different forcing. Even though benthic sediments play an important role in biogeochemical processes occurring in the water column, in the past, very few modelling studies have taken into account these contributions. Recent efforts are being put into the implementation of coupled models, including the biogeochemistry processes occurring at both the upper benthic layer and the water column. This step is important, as along with the river supply, benthic nutrient regeneration can contribute significantly to the phytoplankton growth and the primary production. During the validation process, due to the important number of parameters involving these models, the application of Sensitivity Analysis for selecting the most important model parameters is highly needed. The importance of these processes and tools in the ecological modelling of coastal systems is discussed in this paper.

Keywords: juniper publishers:oncology journals; oncology research journals; oncology journal articles; oncology and cancer case reports; oncology journal of clinical and experimental cancer research; open access; open access journals; Oncology International Journal; juniper publishers reivew (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://juniperpublishers.com/ofoaj/pdf/OFOAJ.MS.ID.555711.pdf (application/pdf)
https://juniperpublishers.com/ofoaj/OFOAJ.MS.ID.555711.php (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:adp:jofoaj:v:7:y:2018:i:3:p:52-56

DOI: 10.19080/OFOAJ.2018.07.555711

Access Statistics for this article

Oceanography & Fisheries Open Access Journal is currently edited by Sophia Mathis

More articles in Oceanography & Fisheries Open Access Journal from Juniper Publishers Inc.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Robert Thomas ().