Inhomogeneous dominance patterns of competing phytoplankton groups in the wake of an island
We investigate the competition between two different functional groups of phytoplankton in the wake of an island close to a coastal upwelling region. We couple a simple biological model with three trophic levels and a hydrodynamic model of a von Kármán vortex street. The spatio-temporal abundance sh...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics |
| Online Access: | http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/17/715/2010/npg-17-715-2010.pdf |