A Mechanistic Approach to Plankton Ecology
A Mechanistic Approach to Plankton Ecology
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DOI：
10.2307/j.ctv39x7mp
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2008-09
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T. Kiørboe
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总结 我们对浮游生物小规模世界的有限直觉使我们描述和理解海洋生态的方式产生了偏差。经典方法考虑物种和种群之间的能量和物质通量来描述海洋生态系统，但生物相互作用发生在个体之间，而不是“种群”或“营养级”的抽象实体之间。一种补充方法是从个体功能和交互的机械洞察中得出系统属性。浮游生物生活在一个与我们的世界完全不同的世界，我们进入的世界也有限。可视化是发展对这个世界的直觉的核心，它与小规模流体物理学的见解一起可以实现对个体相互作用的机械理解以及对种群和生态系统特性的推论。本讲座通过大量示例（包括大量视频）演示了机械方法。
Summary Our limited intuition of the small-scale world of the plankton has biased the way we describe and understand ocean ecology. Classical approaches consider fluxes of energy and matter between species and populations to describe marine ecosystems but biological interactions occur between individuals rather than between the abstract entities of ‘populations’ or “trophic levels.” A complementary approach is to derive system properties from mechanistic insights in individual functioning and interactions. Plankton live in a world that is radically different from ours, and to which we have limited access. Visualization is central to developing an intuition for this world, which together with insights in small-scale fluid physics may allow a mechanistic understanding of individual interactions and deduction of properties of populations and ecosystems. This lecture demonstrates the mechanistic approach through a number of examples, including numerous videos.