Effect of complexity on marine ecosystem models

By Elizabeth A. Fulton, Anthony D. M. Smith, Craig R. Johnson. 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Projecting changes in the distribution and productivity of living marine resources: A critical review of the suite of modelling approaches used in the large European project VECTORS (2016, background): “For example, model estimates of end-to-end models (and most foodweb models) are sensitive to assumptions made on food web interactions such as the functional response of predators (Fulton et al., 2003).”
Lower trophic levels and detrital biomass control the Bay of Biscay continental shelf food web: Implications for ecosystem management (2011, background): “structure was recognized in many occasions to greatly influence the effectiveness for a model to capture real ecosystem properties (Fulton et al., 2003).”
Adding complex trophic interactions to a size-spectral plankton model: emergent diversity patterns and limits on predictability (2011, methodology): “In biogeochemical modeling, model uncertainty has received the most attention (Fennel et al., 2001; Friedrichs et al., 2007; Fulton et al., 2003, 2004).”
A trait-based approach for downscaling complexity in plankton ecosystem models (2009, background): “However, a higher degree of model complexity does not10 necessarily guarantee improved predictions (Fulton et al., 2003; Anderson,11 2005; Hood et al., 2006).12 ∗ Corresponding author.”
Modelling climate change impacts on marine fish populations: process-based integration of ocean warming, acidification and other environmental drivers (2016, background): “…for estimating and analysing 653 empirical parameters, the consideration of scaling issues and the coupling of modules may 654 For Review Only be limited by calibration issues and the propagation of uncertainties (Fulton et al., 2003, 655 Rose, 2012, Voinov and Shugart, 2013, Evans et al., 2015).”
Multispecies fisheries management and conservation: tactical applications using models of intermediate complexity (2014, background): “Sharks, myctophids and squid are all treated as generic species groups in the Coral Sea model, adhering to the general principle of not aggregating serially linked groups (predator and prey), or species, age-classes or functional groups with rate constants which differ by more than twofold to threef”
Nitrogen isotopic baselines and implications for estimating foraging habitat and trophic position of yellowfin tuna in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (2015, background): “, 2009), explicitly represent trophic linkages among biomass pools based on diet data, generally obtained from stomach contents (Fulton et al., 2003).”
Multispecies modelling of some components of the marine community of northern and central Patagonia, Argentina (2005, background): “, Sinclair and Valdimarsson 2003), but there is still a long way to go (Link 2002b; Fulton et al. 2003; Stefansson 2003).”
Comparison of morphological and DNA metabarcoding analyses of diets in exploited marine fishes (2015, background): “If foodwebs are represented too simplistically, either by over-aggregating or omitting groups, model behaviour can be altered to such an extent that it no longer faithfully reproduces system dynamics (Fulton et al. 2003).”