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A size-resolved pelagic ecosystem model

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  • Baird, Mark E.
  • Suthers, Iain M.

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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.

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  • Baird, Mark E. & Suthers, Iain M., 2007. "A size-resolved pelagic ecosystem model," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 203(3), pages 185-203.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:203:y:2007:i:3:p:185-203
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.11.025
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    1. Banas, Neil S., 2011. "Adding complex trophic interactions to a size-spectral plankton model: Emergent diversity patterns and limits on predictability," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 222(15), pages 2663-2675.
    2. Mitra, Aditee, 2009. "Are closure terms appropriate or necessary descriptors of zooplankton loss in nutrient–phytoplankton–zooplankton type models?," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 220(5), pages 611-620.
    3. Hendriks, A. Jan, 2007. "The power of size: A meta-analysis reveals consistency of allometric regressions," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 205(1), pages 196-208.
    4. Portalier, Sébastien M.J. & Cherif, Mehdi & Zhang, Lai & Fussmann, Gregor F. & Loreau, Michel, 2016. "Size-related effects of physical factors on phytoplankton communities," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 323(C), pages 41-50.
    5. Castellani, Marco & Rosland, Rune & Urtizberea, Agurtzane & Fiksen, Øyvind, 2013. "A mass-balanced pelagic ecosystem model with size-structured behaviourally adaptive zooplankton and fish," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 251(C), pages 54-63.
    6. Chen, Fei & Taylor, William D., 2011. "A model of phosphorus cycling in the epilimnion of oligotrophic and mesotrophic lakes," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 222(5), pages 1103-1111.
    7. Baird, Mark E. & Adams, Matthew P. & Babcock, Russell C. & Oubelkheir, Kadija & Mongin, Mathieu & Wild-Allen, Karen A. & Skerratt, Jennifer & Robson, Barbara J. & Petrou, Katherina & Ralph, Peter J. &, 2016. "A biophysical representation of seagrass growth for application in a complex shallow-water biogeochemical model," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 325(C), pages 13-27.
    8. Heneghan, Ryan F. & Everett, Jason D. & Sykes, Patrick & Batten, Sonia D. & Edwards, Martin & Takahashi, Kunio & Suthers, Iain M. & Blanchard, Julia L. & Richardson, Anthony J., 2020. "A functional size-spectrum model of the global marine ecosystem that resolves zooplankton composition," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 435(C).

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