TY - GEN
T1 - Integrating a circulation model and an ecological model to simulate the dynamics of Zooplankton
AU - Rodrigues, M.
AU - Oliveira, A.
AU - Queiroga, H.
AU - Zhang, Y. J.
AU - Fortunato, A. B.
AU - Baptista, A. M.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Zooplankton plays a fundamental role in the estuarine food web. Thus, understanding the factors that affect the distribution of estuarine zooplankton is of major concern for the management of estuaries. An integrated modeling approach, coupling a hydrodynamics and an ecological model, is presented here to simulate the three-dimensional dynamics of zooplankton. The hydrodynamics is computed with SELFE, a 3D baroclinic circulation model. The ecological model is based on an extension of EcoSim 2.0, which allows the simulation of several ecological state variables, to account for zooplankton dynamics. Some test cases are presented that validate the changes made in the EcoSim 2.0 and the integration of the hydrodynamic and ecological models. A sensitivity analysis is also performed to check the influence of the input parameters of the ecological model in the final results, showing the phytoplankton's temperature-dependent growth parameters as the most important, for phytoplankton, inorganic nutrients and DIC pools.
AB - Zooplankton plays a fundamental role in the estuarine food web. Thus, understanding the factors that affect the distribution of estuarine zooplankton is of major concern for the management of estuaries. An integrated modeling approach, coupling a hydrodynamics and an ecological model, is presented here to simulate the three-dimensional dynamics of zooplankton. The hydrodynamics is computed with SELFE, a 3D baroclinic circulation model. The ecological model is based on an extension of EcoSim 2.0, which allows the simulation of several ecological state variables, to account for zooplankton dynamics. Some test cases are presented that validate the changes made in the EcoSim 2.0 and the integration of the hydrodynamic and ecological models. A sensitivity analysis is also performed to check the influence of the input parameters of the ecological model in the final results, showing the phytoplankton's temperature-dependent growth parameters as the most important, for phytoplankton, inorganic nutrients and DIC pools.
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U2 - 10.1061/40990(324)26
DO - 10.1061/40990(324)26
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84891301758
SN - 9780784409909
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling
SP - 427
EP - 446
BT - Estuarine and Coastal Modeling - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference
T2 - 10th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling
Y2 - 5 November 2007 through 7 November 2007
ER -