How important is diversity for capturing environmental-change responses in ecosystem models?

Marine ecosystem models used to investigate how global change affects ocean ecosystems and their functioning typically omit pelagic plankton diversity. Diversity, however, may affect functions such as primary production and their sensitivity to environmental changes. Here we use a global ocean ecosy...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: A. E. F. Prowe, M. Pahlow, S. Dutkiewicz, A. Oschlies
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2014-06-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:http://www.biogeosciences.net/11/3397/2014/bg-11-3397-2014.pdf