Modeled Phytoplankton Productivity and Diversity in the California Current System. Goebel, C. E. & M. Follows, N. 2013.
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tWe explore the phytoplankton community structure and the relationship between phytoplankton diver-sity and productivity produced by a self-emergent ecosystem model that represents a large numberof phytoplankton type and is coupled to a circulation model of the California Current System. Biomassof each modeled phytoplankton type, when averaged over the uppermost model level and for 5-years,spans 7 orders of magnitude; 13 phytoplankton types contribute to the top 99.9% of community biomass,defining modeled species richness. Instantaneously, modeled species richness ranges between 1 and 17while the Shannon index reaches values of 2.3. Diversity versus primary productivity shows large scatterwith low species richness at both high and low productivity levels and a wide range of values includ-ing the maximum at intermediate productivities. Highest productivity and low diversity is found in thenearshore upwelling region dominated by fast growing diatoms; lowest productivity and low diversityoccurs in deep, light-limited regions; and intermediate productivity and high diversity characterize off-shore, oligotrophic surface waters. Locally averaged diversity and productivity covary in time with thesign of correlation dependent on geographic region as representing portions of the diversity-productivityscatter.
@article{goebel_modeled_2013,
	title = {Modeled {Phytoplankton} {Productivity} and {Diversity} in the {California} {Current} {System}},
	volume = {264},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.11.008},
	abstract = {tWe explore the phytoplankton community structure and the relationship between phytoplankton diver-sity and productivity produced by a self-emergent ecosystem model that represents a large numberof phytoplankton type and is coupled to a circulation model of the California Current System. Biomassof each modeled phytoplankton type, when averaged over the uppermost model level and for 5-years,spans 7 orders of magnitude; 13 phytoplankton types contribute to the top 99.9\% of community biomass,defining modeled species richness. Instantaneously, modeled species richness ranges between 1 and 17while the Shannon index reaches values of 2.3. Diversity versus primary productivity shows large scatterwith low species richness at both high and low productivity levels and a wide range of values includ-ing the maximum at intermediate productivities. Highest productivity and low diversity is found in thenearshore upwelling region dominated by fast growing diatoms; lowest productivity and low diversityoccurs in deep, light-limited regions; and intermediate productivity and high diversity characterize off-shore, oligotrophic surface waters. Locally averaged diversity and productivity covary in time with thesign of correlation dependent on geographic region as representing portions of the diversity-productivityscatter.},
	number = {24},
	author = {Goebel, C.A. Edwards, J.P. Zehr, {and} M. Follows, N.L.},
	year = {2013},
	keywords = {CCE}
}

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