NPZ Models of Plankton Dynamics: Their Construction, Coupling to Physics, and Application

By Peter Franks. 2002

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Bridging the gap between marine biogeochemical and fisheries sciences; configuring the zooplankton link (2014, background): “Increased complexity has usually been in numerical rather than detailed structural complexity; for example, 1-box representing the entire zooplankton (Z) community vs. 3-boxes representing different zooplankton functional types (e.g., Franks, 2002 vs. Blackford et al., 2004).”
Foraging arena theory (2012, background): “Such oscillatory effects have been avoided in some simple nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton (NPZ) models by assuming quadratic, density-dependent zooplankton mortality (so-called model ‘closure’), but there is little theoretical or empirical support for such assumptions (Franks 2002).”
Linking traits to species diversity and community structure in phytoplankton (2010, background): “Traditional models in community ecology typically involve the interaction between only a few species, as few as one per trophic level in marine NPZ (nitrogen–phytoplankton–zooplankton) models (Franks, 2002).”
Planktonic ecosystem models: perplexing parameterizations and a failure to fail (2009, background): “Typically, this is Michaelis‐Menten for the phytoplankton uptake of nutrients, and a Holling-type grazing response of the zooplankton to changing phytoplankton concentrations ( Franks, 2002 ).”
Mixotrophic protists and a new paradigm for marine ecology: where does plankton research go now? (2019, methodology): “…copepods. and their copepod predators as “herbivores” or “insects of the sea” (e.g. Cushing, 1975), with classic models (e.g. NPZ: Fasham et al., 1990; Franks, 2002), their complex successors (e.g. DARWIN: Follows et al., 2007; MEDUSA: Yool et al., 2013; ERSEM: Baretta et al., 1995; Butenschön…”
Dedalus: A flexible framework for numerical simulations with spectral methods (2019, background): “Even more intriguing are possible combinations of several of the above [4, 5].”
Global biogeochemical impacts of phytoplankton: a trait‐based perspective (2015, background): “Although they greatly simplify biological complexity, NPZ models are useful for theoretical exploration and have successfully represented ecosystem patterns in many situations (Franks 2002).”
Adding complex trophic interactions to a size-spectral plankton model: emergent diversity patterns and limits on predictability (2011, background): “Thus the model can be thought of as an “open” or “flowthrough” NPZ system, as opposed to the classical “closed” NPZ system (Franks, 2002), which sends mortality and egestion losses directly back into the N pool.1 The minimalism of this model configuration makes the interpretation of results easier,…”