The role of microzooplankton trophic interactions in modelling a suite of mesocosm ecosystems

Bei Su, Markus Pahlow and A. E. Friederike Prowe

Ecological Modelling, 2018, vol. 368, issue C, 169-179

Abstract: The zooplankton components in biogeochemical models drive top-down control of primary production and remineralisation, and thereby exert a strong impact on model performance. Who eats whom in oceanic plankton ecosystem models is often largely determined by body size. However, zooplankton of similar size can have different prey-size spectra. Thus, models with solely size-structured trophic interactions may not capture the full diversity of feeding interactions and miss important parts of zooplankton behavior.

Keywords: Optimality-based plankton model; Trophic interactions; Feeding diversity; Dinoflagellates; Ciliates; Predator–prey size ratio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.11.013

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