Models
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Topic: Models (max 10 pages)
- Ecosystem cause-effect chains; linking physical, chemical and bological processes;
- Approaches to ecosystem modelling;
- Nutrient cycling; linking benthic and pelagic systems, estuaries as filter and sink;
- Primary production; light, temperature, nutrients, transport&stratification, grazers;
- Algae species modelling; predicting algae blooms;
- Foodweb; carbon cycling, transfer of pollutants;
- Physical - biological interactions; ecosystem-engineering, modelling biogeomorphological processes;
- Modelling and predictability; limitations to what can models deliver, non-linear interactions, chaotic behaviour, weather;
- Modelling and monitoring; calibration and validation;
- Modelling and management; bridging the divide, implementation of decision support systems;
- Temporal and spatial scales; choosing scales, coupling of scales, scale-interactions;
- Relevant model systems and developing institutes;
