Modeling the coupling of ocean ecology and biogeochemistry

摘要: [1] We examine the interplay between ecology and biogeochemical cycles in context of a global three-dimensional ocean model where self-assembling phytoplankton communities emerge from wide set potentially viable cell types. We consider complex solutions light resource competition theory. The emergent community structures ecological regimes vary across different physical environments ocean: Strongly seasonal, high-nutrient regions are dominated by fast growing bloom specialists, while stable, low-seasonality organisms that can grow at low nutrient concentrations suited to oligotrophic conditions. In latter regions, framework theory provides useful qualitative quantitative diagnostic tool with which interpret outcome organisms, their regulation environment, sensitivity system changes key physiological characteristics cells.