The impact of flow on plankton dynamics and diversity

由于浮游生物在海洋食物链底部的重要性以及它们受人为因素（即由人类活动引起的）的影响，浮游生物组合的动态在微观和宏观尺度上得到了广泛的研究。最近，这种描述已经扩展到解决所谓的浮游生物悖论，即大量的共生物种似乎在争夺相同的资源。本项目将探讨空间结构对相互作用物种的动力系统模型的影响，特别关注最近对空间流动带来的非均匀系统的描述。浮游生物的生理学，包括物理特性（浮力、惯性）和生物偏动（趋光性、流变性），将视在群落背景下描述这些特性的挑战而定。该项目旨在强调更好地综合生态模型的理论、物理和经验分支的优势。

The dynamics of plankton assemblages have been widely studied at micro- and macro-scales due to their importance at the bottom of the marine food chain and exposure to anthropogenic factors (i.e. caused by human activity). More recently, such descriptions have been extended to tackle the so-called paradox of the plankton, the large number of co-located species observed that appear to compete for the same resources. This project will explore the impact of spatial structure on dynamical system models of interacting species, particularly focusing on recent descriptions of inhomogeneous systems brought on from spatial flow. The physiology of plankton, including physical properties (buoyancy; inertia) and biological biased motion (phototaxis; rheotaxis) will be considered, contingent on the challenges of describing such properties in a community context. The project is intended to highlight the strengths of a better synthesis of theoretical, physical and empirical branches of ecological models.