Plankton modelling and CLAW
Author(s) -
Roger Cropp,
John Norbury
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
environmental chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.616
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1449-8979
pISSN - 1448-2517
DOI - 10.1071/en07079
Subject(s) - plankton , context (archaeology) , ecosystem , climate change , global warming , ecology , environmental science , biology , paleontology
The prospect of human-induced climate change provides a compelling imperative for an improved understanding of living systems, especially those involving ocean plankton that are proposed to have an important role in regulating climate. Ecosystems are complex, adaptive systems and mathematical modelling has proved to be a powerful tool in understanding such systems. The present article considers some of the fundamental issues currently constraining such understanding with particular consideration to modelling ecosystems that underpin the CLAW hypothesis and how they might behave in response to global warming.Griffith Sciences, Griffith School of EnvironmentFull Tex
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