Plankton functional types

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Alderkamp A-C, Nejstgaard JC, Verity PG, Zirbel MJ, Saz-hin AF, van Rijssel M (2006) Dynamics in carbohydrate composition of Phaeocystis pouchetii colonies during spring blooms in mesocosms. J Sea Res 55 169-181 Anderson TR (2005) Plankton functional type modeling running before we can walk J Plankton Res 27 1073-1081... 

Le Quere, C., et al. (2005). Ecosystem dynamics based on plankton functional types for global ocean biogeochemistry models. Global Change Biol. 11, 2016—2040. 

Among natural populations, two major deviations from the ideal pattern are ubiquitous (Pielou, 1977 Lerman, 1979). The first deviation consists of populations with excessive proportions of young units (e.g., planktonic larval stages) because their destruction rate is very high, but chances for survival improve considerably with maturation (type II in Figure 2). The mathematical formalism for such populations (e.g., Lerman, 1979) is a power-law function. 

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