Biological Oceanography

of temperatures. Fitted maximum rate curves are that due to Eppley (1972) and one fitted (with confidence limi ...

This curve is below that of Eppley, when that is plotted on the Arrhenius axes, but the actual quantita ...

termination of a bloom, dinoflagellates (especially Alexandrium species) undergo sexual reproduction and the ...

Cautions and Future Prospects (^) Phytoplankton ecologists have been a semi-independent subset among biologic ...

Chapter 4 Numerical models: the standard form of theory in pelagic ecology Well before the advent of readily ...

(^) Because phytoplankton blooms in spring occur in temperate coastal areas and in the subarctic North Atlantic ...

mathematician with interests in biological interactions and fisheries, developed a simple, differential-equa ...

(^) in which the primes (′) denote that the best constants might be a little different from the infinitesim ...

the stable state, this will be a single point at (1000, 10). For, say, a starting N2 value of ...

Predator–prey interactions with large regions of stability can be obtained by replacing the exp ...

(Eqn. 4.2) (^) is provided in Box 4.2. (^) The solution settles immediately into boring and unrealistic limit ...

%3. Set Parameters a=0.69; b=0.06; c=0.02; d=0.5; e=0.03; %reduce parameters for small time steps as=a/nsteps; bs=b/ns ...

A Simple Pelagic Ecosystem Model (^) One of our basic goals in pelagic ecology is to understand at whatever l ...

column. Since there is no spatial variation, such a model is termed zero-dimensional (even though time is ...

Names of the state variables, parameters and their standard values are shown in Table 4.1. Box 4.3 Matlab scrip ...

Table 4.1 Symbols and standard values or initial values for the Franks et al. (1986) model. (^) VARIABLES AND PARAME ...

the spring bloom contain more nitrate: 10–12 μM. Substituting those values (Fig. 4.4b), produces a ...

More realism can be obtained by letting some of the phytoplankton and zooplankton that die (–m P − k ...

in spring when illumination becomes sufficient above the shallowest significant mixing barrier for ...

changes. State variables N, P, and H are in units of nutrient (as nitrogen) concentration, μmol ...