Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4548583 | Journal of Marine Systems | 2010 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
The embedding of our ecosystem model into a one-dimensional numerical model with diffusion turns out to allow coexistence between phytoplankton species, providing a possible solution to the 'paradox of plankton' in the sense that it prevents the competitive exclusion of one phytoplankton species. These results improve our knowledge of the factors that control the structure and functioning of plankton communities.
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Authors
Coralie Perruche, Pascal Rivière, Philippe Pondaven, Xavier Carton,