Phytoplankton competition for nutrients and light in a stratified water column

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-203

  Yoshiyama, Kohei ^a,b   Mellard, Jarad P ^a   Litchman, Elena ^a   Klausmeier, Christopher A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Deep chlorophyll maximum; Evolutionary stable strategy (ess); Mathematical model; Phytoplankton vertical distribution; Resource competition

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CHLOROPHYLL; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; STRATIFIED FLUID; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GAME; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WATER FLOW;

ECOSYSTEM; GAME THEORY; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 70149106819     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/600113     Document Type: Article

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