Resolving the role of zooplankton in the marine ecosystem with functional size spectra [thesis]

Ryan Fintan Heneghan
Zooplankton are the linchpin of the marine ecosystem, serving as the main energy pathway from primary producers to higher trophic level organisms, such as fish. Despite their critical role, zooplankton are typically oversimplified or ignored altogether in current marine ecosystem models, and we have limited understanding of how variation in the zooplankton affects energy transfer from phytoplankton to fish. An alternative to resolving the enormous Box 2.
doi:10.14264/uql.2019.29 fatcat:23gqyb3m3jgvregxq6ymyh2qaa