Stepwise building of plankton functional type (PFT) models: A feasible route to complex models?

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 6-15

  Frede Thingstad, T ^a   Strand, Espen ^a   Larsen, Aud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; BUILDING MODEL; COMPLEX MODEL; DEFENCE MECHANISMS; FOOD WEBS; FUNCTIONAL TYPES; NUTRIENT ACQUISITION; SYSTEM LEVELS;

OCEAN HABITATS;

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOOD WEB; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PARASITISM; PLANKTON;

EID: 76749141269     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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