Role of phytoplankton cell size on the competition for nutrients and light in incompletely mixed systems

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 300, Issue , 2012, Pages 330-343

  Kerimoglu, Onur ^a   Straile, Dietmar ^a   Peeters, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell size; Cell stoichiometry; Resource competition; Spatially resolved model; Turbulent mixing

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GROWTH RESPONSE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOICHIOMETRY; TURBULENT MIXING; WATER COLUMN;

ALGAL COMMUNITY; ALGAL GROWTH; ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT LOADING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANT METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; THERMOCLINE; TURBIDITY; WATER STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ALGAE;

EID: 84857222812     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.01.044     Document Type: Article

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