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Area of Science:

  • Marine ecology
  • Ecological modeling
  • Biogeochemical cycles

Background:

  • Planktonic ecosystems exhibit complex size-structured dynamics.
  • Understanding the interplay of nutrient availability, phytoplankton, and zooplankton is crucial.
  • Allometric scaling principles are increasingly applied to biological processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a size-resolved nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton (NPZ) model.
  • To investigate the impact of allometric scaling on ecosystem equilibrium solutions.
  • To explore the drivers of planktonic ecosystem structure and diversity.

Main Methods:

  • Development of an NPZ model with arbitrary size-resolution for phytoplankton and zooplankton.
  • Application of allometric scaling to biological parameters.
  • Derivation of analytical solutions for a model version with herbivorous zooplankton.

Main Results:

  • Identified constraints on allometric scaling combinations for observed ecosystem structures.
  • Demonstrated that ecosystem diversity results from simultaneous bottom-up (resource) and top-down (predation) control.
  • Showed that multiple pathways can yield similar biomass spectra, questioning the informativeness of spectral slope alone.

Conclusions:

  • Simultaneous bottom-up and top-down controls are vital for structuring planktonic ecosystems.
  • Biomass spectral slope is not a definitive indicator of underlying ecological dynamics.
  • There is a need for enhanced size-resolved field measurements to validate ecological models.