A size-resolved pelagic ecosystem model

Mark E. Baird and Iain M. Suthers

Ecological Modelling, 2007, vol. 203, issue 3, 185-203

Abstract: A size-resolved pelagic ecosystem model is developed using descriptions of physical limits to biological processes and allometric relationships to determine physiological rates. The model contains three functional groups: phytoplankton, protozoans and metazoans—requiring three separately resolved size distributions. Within each functional group the size-resolution of the model can be altered without changing the model parameters, which are the coefficients of the allometric relationships, or changing the model equations, which are characteristic of each functional group. This approach allows the number of size-classes to be varied, and for a convergence of output with increasing resolution to be achieved.

Keywords: Plankton; Size; Biomass size spectrum; Zooplankton; Protozoa; Metazoa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.11.025

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