دورية أكاديمية
A biophysical representation of seagrass growth for application in a complex shallow-water biogeochemical model
| العنوان: | A biophysical representation of seagrass growth for application in a complex shallow-water biogeochemical model |
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| المؤلفون: | Baird, ME, Adams, MP, Babcock, RC, Oubelkheir, K, Mongin, M, Wild-Allen, KA, Skerratt, J, Robson, BJ, Petrou, K, Ralph, PJ, O'Brien, KR, Carter, AB, Jarvis, JC, Rasheed, MA |
| بيانات النشر: | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | University of Technology Sydney: OPUS - Open Publications of UTS Scholars |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Ecology |
| الوصف: | Seagrasses are a critical component of the healthy functioning of many coastal marine ecosystems. Capturing the dynamics of seagrass communities requires both a detailed representation of processes such as seagrass nutrient uptake and photosynthesis, as well as models of light penetration, water column and sediment biogeochemical processes and other ecosystem characteristics that determine the environmental state. Here we develop a new two-state, 13-parameter seagrass model with the aim of providing sufficient detail to represent light and nutrient limitation, but simple enough to be coupled into a 60 state variable biogeochemical model. The novel formulation is built around a nitrogen-specific leaf area parameter, Ω, that is well-constrained and is used in calculating both the rate of photosynthesis and the fraction of the seafloor covered by seagrass, Aeff, where Aeff=1-exp(-ΩSGA) and SGA is the aboveground areal seagrass biomass. The model also contains terms for the uptake of nutrients from multiple layers of varying-porosity sediments, translocation of organic matter between leaves and roots, respiration and simple mortality terms. The model is applied to Gladstone Harbour, a macro-tidal sub-tropical estuary in northeast Australia, and is able to simulate realistic spatial seagrass distributions. A simplified form of the model is derived, which can be used to predict seagrass light-limited growth based on five measurable species-specific parameters (maximum growth rate, mortality rate, compensation irradiance, leaf blade angle and nitrogen-specific leaf area). The steady-state percent coverage of seagrass achieved at varying light levels and mortality intensity is calculated as a means of understanding the dynamics of the new seagrass model. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0304-3800 1872-7026 |
| العلاقة: | Ecological Modelling; Ecological Modelling, 2016, 325, pp. 13-27; http://hdl.handle.net/10453/155351Test |
| الإتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10453/155351Test |
| حقوق: | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.77D11662 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 03043800 18727026 |
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