首页> 外文期刊>ICES Journal of Marine Science >The paradox of the 'paradox of the plankton'
【24h】

The paradox of the 'paradox of the plankton'

机译:“浮游生物悖论”的悖论

获取原文
获取原文并翻译 | 示例
           

摘要

One of the central orienting questions in biodiversity theory and ecology is the "paradox of the plankton", which asks how it is possible for many species to coexist on limited resources given the tendency for competition to exclude species. Over the past five decades, ecologists have offered dozens of solutions to the paradox, invoking game theory, chaos, stochastics, and many other concepts. Despite the plentitude of solutions to the paradox, ecologists continue to offer up novel solutions. Ocean modellers are now faced with the opposite paradox: given the overabundance and the diversity of solutions to the paradox, what is the appropriate way to build coexistence into ecosystem models? Ocean ecosystem models have a very standardized form-nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton (NPZ)-type systems of differential equations-where competitive exclusion is a common model behaviour. We suggest approaching the problem from the perspective of community-level patterns. We offer a prototype for building coexistence into NPZ models. The model allows for diverse assemblages of phytoplankton or zooplankton groups to persist and produces accurate community-level patterns. The approach is simple, adding only one additional parameter, and allows us to test the effects of trait distributions and environmental variables on diversity.
机译:生物多样性理论和生态学的中心定位问题之一是“浮游生物悖论”,该问题提出,鉴于竞争有排斥物种的趋势,许多物种如何在有限的资源上共存。在过去的五十年中,生态学家为悖论提供了数十种解决方案,包括博弈论,混乱,随机性和许多其他概念。尽管有许多解决矛盾的方法,但生态学家仍在继续提供新颖的解决方案。海洋建模者现在面临相反的悖论:鉴于这一悖论的过多和解决方案的多样性,将共存纳入生态系统模型的适当方法是什么?海洋生态系统模型具有非常标准化的形式-养分-浮游植物-浮游动物(NPZ)型微分方程式系统,其中竞争排斥是一种常见的模型行为。我们建议从社区级别的模式来解决问题。我们提供了将共存构建到NPZ模型中的原型。该模型可以使浮游植物或浮游动物群体的各种组合得以持久并产生准确的社区级格局。该方法很简单,仅添加一个附加参数,并允许我们测试性状分布和环境变量对多样性的影响。

著录项

相似文献

  • 外文文献
  • 中文文献
  • 专利
获取原文

客服邮箱:kefu@zhangqiaokeyan.com

京公网安备:11010802029741号 ICP备案号:京ICP备15016152号-6 六维联合信息科技 (北京) 有限公司©版权所有
  • 客服微信

  • 服务号