On the interest of using field primary production data to calibrate phytoplankton rate processes in ecosystem models

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 169-178

  Grangeré, Karine ^a,b   Lefebvre, Sébastien ^b   Ménesguen, Alain ^a   Jouenne, Fabien ^c  

^a TECHNOPÔLE BREST IROISE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE ROSCOFF   (France)

Author keywords

Baie des Veys; chlorophyll a to carbon ratio; diatoms; empirical formulations; France; mechanistic formulations; Normandy; parameter optimisation; photosynthesis irradiance curve

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CHLOROPHYLL A; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; IRRADIANCE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

BAY OF SEINE; BAY OF VEYS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; NORMANDY; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 57949102187     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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