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Plankton modelling and CLAW

Roger Cropp A C and John Norbury B
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A Centre for Environmental Systems Research, Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld 4111, Australia.

B Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 24–29 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LB, UK.

C Corresponding author. Email: r.cropp@griffith.edu.au

Environmental Chemistry 4(6) 388-390 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN07079
Submitted: 24 October 2007  Accepted: 7 November 2007   Published: 6 December 2007

Environmental context. The prospect of human-induced climate change provides a compelling imperative for an improved understanding of living systems, especially those involving ocean plankton that are proposed to have an important role in regulating climate. Ecosystems are complex, adaptive systems and mathematical modelling has proved to be a powerful tool in understanding such systems. The present article considers some of the fundamental issues currently constraining such understanding with particular consideration to modelling ecosystems that underpin the CLAW hypothesis and how they might behave in response to global warming.


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