SIMPLE COUPLED PHYSICAL-BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELS OF MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
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SIMPLE COUPLED
PHYSICAL-BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELS OF
MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
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Why use mathematical models?
• Conceptual models often characterize an ecosystem as a set of “boxes” linked by processes
• Processes e.g. photosynthesis, growth, grazing, and mortality link elements of the …
• State (“the boxes”) e.g. nutrient concentration, phytoplankton abundance, biomass, dissolved gases, of an ecosystem
• In the lab, field, or mesocosm, we can observe some of the complexity of an ecosystem and quantify these processes
• With quantitative rules for linking the boxes, we can attempt to simulate the changes over time of the ecosystem state
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What can we learn?
• Suppose a model can simulate the spring bloom chlorophyll concentration observed by satellite using: observed light, a climatology of winter nutrients, ocean temperature and mixed layer depth …
• Then the model rates of uptake of nutrients during the bloom and loss of particulates below the euphotic zone give us quantitative information on net primary production and carbon export – quantities we cannot easily observe directly
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Reality Model• Individual plants and animals • Many influences from nutrients and trace elements• Continuous functions of space and time• Varying behavior, choice, chance• Unknown or incompletely understood interactions
• Lump similar individuals into groups– express in terms of biomass and C:N ratio
• Small number of state variables (one or two limiting nutrients)
• Discrete spatial points and time intervals• Average behavior based on ad hoc assumptions• Must parameterize unknowns
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The steps in constructing a model
1) Identify the scientific problem(e.g. seasonal cycle of nutrients and plankton in mid-latitudes; short-term blooms associated with coastal upwelling events; human-induced eutrophication and water quality; global climate change)
2) Determine relevant variables and processes that need to be considered
3) Develop mathematical formulation
4) Numerical implementation, provide forcing, parameters, etc.
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State variables and Processes
“NPZD”: model named for and characterized by its state variables
State variables are concentrations (in a common “currency”) that depend on space and time
Processes link the state variable boxes
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Processes• Biological:
– Growth– Death– Photosynthesis– Grazing– Bacterial regeneration of nutrients
• Physical:– Mixing– Transport (by currents from tides, winds …)– Light– Air-sea interaction (winds, heat fluxes, precipitation)
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State variables and Processes
Can use Redfield ratio to give e.g. carbon biomass from nitrogen equivalent
Carbon-chlorophyll ratio
Where is the physics?
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Examples of conceptual ecosystems that have been modeled
• A model of a food web might be relatively complex– Several nutrients– Different size/species classes of phytoplankton– Different size/species classes of zooplankton– Detritus (multiple size classes)– Predation (predators and their behavior)
• Multiple trophic levels– Pigments and bio-optical properties
• Photo-adaptation, self-shading– 3 spatial dimensions in the physical environment, diurnal cycle of
atmospheric forcing, tides
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Silicic acid – important
limiting nutrient in
N. Pacific
gelatinous zooplankton, euphausids, krill
copepods
ciliates
particulate silicon
Fig. 1 – Schematic view of the NEMURO lower trophic level ecosystem model. Solid black arrows indicate nitrogen flows and dashed blue arrows indicate silicon. Dotted black arrows represent the exchange or sinking of the materials between the modeled box below the mixed layer depth.
Kishi, M., M. Kashiwai, and others, (2007), NEMURO - a lower trophic level model for the North Pacific marine ecosystem, Ecological Modelling, 202(1-2), 12-25.
Soetaert K, Middelburg JJ, Herman PMJ, Buis K. 2000. On the coupling of benthic and pelagic bio-geochemical models. Earth-Sci. Rev. 51:173-201
Schematic of ROMS “Bio_Fennel” ecosystem model
Phytoplankton concentration absorbs light Att(x,z) = AttSW + AttChl*Chlorophyll(x,z,t)
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Examples of conceptual ecosystems that have been modeled
• In simpler models, elements of the state and processes can be combined if time and space scales justify this– e.g. bacterial regeneration can be treated as a flux from
zooplankton mortality directly to nutrients
• A very simple model might be just:
N – P – Z – Nutrients– Phytoplankton– Zooplankton
… all expressed in terms of equivalent nitrogen concentration
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ROMS fennel.h(carbon off, oxygen off, chl not shown)
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Mathematical formulation
• Mass conservation– Mass M (kilograms) of
e.g. carbon or nitrogen in the system
• Concentration Cn (kg m-3) of state variable n is mass per unit volume V
• Source for one state variable will be a sink for another
sinkssourcesMdtd
n
nVCM
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e.g. inputs of nutrients from rivers or sediments
e.g. burial in sediments
e.g. nutrient uptake by phytoplankton
The key to model building is finding appropriate formulations for transfers, and not omitting important state variables
Mathematical formulation
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Slope of a continuous function of x is dx
dffslope
Some calculus
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For example:
State variables: Nutrient and PhytoplanktonProcess: Photosynthetic production of organic matter
max ( )d P v f N Pdt
NkNNf
N )(
Large N
Small N
Michaelis and Menten (1913)
vmax is maximum growth rate (units are time-1) kn is “half-saturation” concentration; at N=kn f(kn)=0.5
max
max
( ) 1
( ) /
/n
n
f NdP dt v P
f N N k
dP dt v N k P
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From Heidi’s lectures
Average PP saturates at high PAR
PPmax
0.5 PPmax
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State variables: Nutrient and Phytoplankton
Process: Photosynthetic production of organic matter
max
max
( )
( )
d P v f N Pdtd N v f N Pdt
The nitrogen consumed by the phytoplankton for growth must be lost from the Nutrients state variable
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• Suppose there are ample nutrients so N is not limiting: then f(N) = 1
• Growth of P will be exponential
max
max
v t
dP v Pdt
P Ae
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• Suppose the plankton concentration held constant, and nutrients again are not limiting: f(N) = 1
• N will decrease linearly with time as it is consumed to grow P
maxdN v Pdt
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• Suppose the plankton concentration held constant, but nutrients become limiting: then f(N) = N/kn
• N will exponentially decay to zero until it is exhausted
max
max
n
n
v Pt
k
v PdN Ndt k
N Ae
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max
max
( )
( )
d P v f N Pdtd N v f N Pdt
Can the right-hand-side of the P equation be negative?
Can the right-hand-side of the N equation be positive?
… So we need other processes to complete our model.
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Coupling to physical processes
Advection-diffusion-equation:
)()( ClossCgainCDCvCt
C is the concentration of any biological state variable
advectionturbulent mixing
Biological dynamics
physics
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Simple 1-dimensional vertical model of mixed layer and N-P ecosystem
• Windows program and inputs files are at: http://marine.rutgers.edu/dmcs/ms320/Phyto1d/– Run the program
called Phyto_1d.exe using the default input files
• Sharples, J., Investigating theseasonal vertical structure of phytoplankton in shelf seas, Marine Models Online, vol 1, 1999, 3-38.
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