Bottom-up and top-down forcing in a simple size-structured plankton dynamics model

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 134-152

  Stock, Charles A ^a   Powell, Thomas M ^a   Levin, Simon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass spectrum; Ecosystem; Energy flow; Food web; Modelling; Plankton

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEAN HABITATS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

BOTTOM-UP; ENERGY FLOW; FOOD WEB; GROWTH EFFICIENCIES; MATCHING; MODELLING; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENTS; PLANKTIVOROUS FISHES; PLANKTON; PLANKTON DYNAMICS; PRIMARY PRODUCERS; PRIMARY PRODUCTIONS; QUANTITATIVE; SATURATION CONSTANTS; STEADY-STATE MODELS; STRUCTURED PATTERNS; TOP-DOWN; ZOO-PLANKTON;

ECOLOGY;

BIOMASS; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENERGY FLOW; FOOD WEB; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PLANKTIVORE; PLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

EID: 54049094417     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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