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Study on the Selective Grazing of Zooplankton in Plankton Ecosystem
- Source :
- Advanced Materials Research. :17-21
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Trans Tech Publications, Ltd., 2013.
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Abstract
- Harmful algal blooms (Habs) caused great harm to the human environment. Habs occurrence was connected with other types of plankton. This relationship may be restrictive, and may also be promotional. Selectivity of zooplankton grazing has an important influence on the Habs. The behavior of zooplankton selective grazing was studied in the plankton ecosystem formed by three populations of nontoxic phytoplankton-toxic phytoplankton-zooplankton (NTP-TTP-Z) system. The selective grazing function of zooplankton on toxic phytoplankton and non-toxic phytoplankton was built based on Holling type IV functional response. Numerical simulation was given depending on the laboratory data. Results show that the models nicely explained the selective grazing behavior of zooplankton in the three species ecosystem, and provided key parameters for the marine ecosystem dynamics models.
Details
- ISSN :
- 16628985
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Advanced Materials Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........6d015c0fd00ee7fb55ccf578ea512a42
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.864-867.17