Critical spatial scale for plankton patchiness
Application of synchronisation theory to plankton patchiness
... disorder across the lattice to investigate these two cases. Near to the observed sharp transitions in system behaviour, we have seen that very long transients are required for steady-state dynamics to become established. ...
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Small-scale spatial structure in plankton distributions
... of plankton pop- ulations suggests that stirring plays an important role in de- termining their spatial ...induced spatial structure has been shown to be a result of competition between the time ...
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Physical and optical properties of phytoplankton-rich layers in a coastal fjord: a step toward prediction and strategic sampling of plankton patchiness
... variables that can be difficult to interpret graphically, is the transformation of normalized data onto dimen- sionally reduced principal component space. The variability of the data along each principal compo- nent can ...
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Ecological Implications of Fine-Scale Fire Patchiness and Severity in Tropical Savannas of Northern Australia
... fire patchiness, especially in relation to rapid accumulation of grassy ...the spatial heterogeneity and non- randomness of EDS burning through strategic application of prescribed burning ...
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Hydrological connectivity in vegetated river deltas : the effects of spatial variability and patchiness on channel-island exchange
... reach scale, vegetation can control the shape of the residence time distributions (RTD) in wetlands, which is an important control parameter for biogeochemical nutrient processing [Kadlec and Wallace, 2008; Cheng ...
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Wave of chaos in a spatial eco epidemiological system : generating realistic patterns of patchiness in rabbit lynx dynamics
... Table 5: Model parameter values used in numerical simulations illustrated in Fig. 7. Fig. 8, shows the effect of the contact rate β on the spatio-temporal distribution of all the three populations. We find that as we ...
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Plankton lifeforms as a biodiversity indicator for regional scale assessment of pelagic habitats for policy
... in plankton lifeforms must be interpreted with respect to environmental variation and anthropogenic pressures, to identify factors responsible for plankton community ...is critical when assessing ...
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Multi-scale spatio-temporal patchiness of macrozoobenthos in the Sacca di Goro lagoon (Po River Delta, Italy)
... the spatial structuring in these ecosystems is therefore necessary in order to give to ecosystem patchiness a proper importance and role in the maintenance of ecosystem functioning and ...
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Scale-dependent predator-prey interactions: the aggregative response of seabirds to prey under variable prey abundance and patchiness
... their spatial coherence during ship board ...and patchiness from a 9 yr data set collected in the Barents ...the spatial distribution of capelin and murres in the Barents Sea reported a hierarchical ...
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The Importance of Scale for Spatial-confounding Bias and Precision of Spatial Regression Estimators
... of scale are critical in spatial regression ...Standard spatial regression models, based on spatial random effects, kriging specifications, or penalized splines to represent the ...
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The fire patchiness paradigm: a case study in northwest Queensland
... Fire Patchiness Paradigm Research into fire ecology has culminated in ‘the patchiness ...landscape patchiness using ...fire patchiness or desirable fire ...the scale and internal ...
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The fire patchiness paradigm: a case study in northwest Queensland
... Fire Patchiness Paradigm Research into fire ecology has culminated in ‘the patchiness ...landscape patchiness using ...fire patchiness or desirable fire ...the scale and internal ...
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Sufficient noise and turbulence can induce phytoplankton patchiness
... phyto- plankton density P for the parameter Set I, in which the effects of turbulence and noise are both ...the spatial distribution of phytoplankton begins to be disturbed soon due to the combined effects ...
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Australian Savanna Fire Regimes: Context, Scales, Patchiness
... A further recent application, using temporal sequences of LANDSAT-derived fi re mapping, has been to describe landscape-scale changes in fi re-induced heterogeneity with time, adapting a methodology originally ...
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Theorizing Scale in Critical Place-Name Studies
... of scale, for example, has been the subject of wide-ranging discussions across many subfields of geography (Herod and Wright, 2002; Sheppard and McMaster, ...of scale in the spatial framing, ...
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Genetic patchiness among recruits in the European eel Anguilla anguilla
... Many populations are composed of a mixture of indi- viduals that reproduce at different times, which may of- ten be heritable (Hendry & Day 2005). Temporal assorta- tive mating may limit gene flow between early and late ...
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SMALL-SCALE PATCHINESS, MODELS OF
... Denman KL and Gargett AE (1995) Biological-physical interactions in the upper ocean: the role of vertical and small scale transport processes. Donaghay PL and Osborn TR (1997) Toward a[r] ...
The price of patchiness
... Methods commonly used for monitoring plankton usually neglect the fact of patchy distribution, and thus results suffer.. Interpretation of such data can be highly misleading[r] ...
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Ciliated protozoan communities over Cobb Seamount: increase in biomass and spatial patchiness
... Integrated (from surface to 80 m) ciliate abundance, biomass and average cell carbon (biomass abundance-'), chlorophyll a concentration, and primary productivity in the survey st[r] ...
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The Abundance and Spatial Distribution of Plankton Communities in Banggai Islands Waters
... specific plankton community in the oceanic ecosystem of Banggai ...NORPAC plankton net. The plankton data in this research was analyzed with Bray-Curtis Clustering Analysis (Single Link), linear ...
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