Modeling the Plankton - Enhancing the Integration of Biological Knowledge and Mechanistic Understanding

• Main Author: Kevin J. Flynn (auth)
• Other Authors: Susanne Menden-Deuer (auth), Dag L. Aksnes (auth), Christian Lindemann (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Climate Change; ecosystems; Mixotroph; food webs; Phytoplankton; virus-host; biogeochemistry; Zooplankton; Predictive capability; Microbial loop
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In light of climate change and allied changes to marine ecosystems, mathematical models have become an important tool to examine processes and predict phenomena from local through to global scales. In recent years model studies, laboratory experiments and a better ecological understanding of the pel...