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dc.contributor.authorRohde, Klausen
local.source.editorEditor(s): Klaus Rohdeen
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-21T10:07:00Z-
dc.date.issued2013-
dc.identifier.citationThe Balance of Nature and Human Impact, p. 51-61en
dc.identifier.isbn9781139095075en
dc.identifier.isbn9781107019614en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13685-
dc.description.abstractFreshwater streams and lakes are habitats for complex ecosystems, of which plankton is an important component. Even more extensive are the oceans, which cover about 70% of the Earth's surface. Marine ecosystems including their plankton have very great ecological and economic significance. Although our knowledge of biodiversity patterns in marine phyto- and zooplankton (compared to terrestrial systems) is still very limited (Irigoien et al., 2004), much work, some of it theoretical, some experimental, has led to important insights. The study of plankton has played a crucial historical role in our understanding of ecological processes. The famous "paradox of the plankton" formulated by Hutchinson (1961) drew attention to the fact that many more species coexist in the supposedly homogeneous habitat than permitted under the competitive exclusion principle of Gause. Hutchinson suggested that nonequilibrium conditions might lead to the greater than expected diversity, a suggestion shown to be correct by many subsequent studies. Hutchinson himself thought that seasons and weather-induced fluctuations were responsible. But, in addition, as reviewed by Scheffer et al. (2003), homogeneity due to mixing hardly exists, and even in the open ocean meso-scale vortices and fronts result in spatial heterogeneity. Moreover, modeling of plankton communities has shown that even in homogeneous and constant environments plankton may never reach equilibrium, because multi-species interactions may lead to oscillations and chaos. This is supported by laboratory experiments, which have shown highly irregular and unpredictable long-term fluctuations at the species level (Figure 4.1), although total algal biomass and other indicators at higher aggregation levels may show regular patterns.en
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dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofThe Balance of Nature and Human Impacten
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dc.titleThe paradox of the planktonen
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/CBO9781139095075.008en
dc.subject.keywordsGlobal Change Biologyen
dc.subject.keywordsZoologyen
local.contributor.firstnameKlausen
local.subject.for2008069902 Global Change Biologyen
local.subject.for2008060899 Zoology not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.seo2008970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciencesen
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local.profile.schoolZoologyen
local.profile.emailkrohde@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
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local.publisher.placeCambridge, United Kingdomen
local.identifier.totalchapters27en
local.format.startpage51en
local.format.endpage61en
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local.contributor.lastnameRohdeen
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local.title.maintitleThe paradox of the planktonen
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/174152311en
local.search.authorRohde, Klausen
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local.year.published2013en
local.subject.for2020319902 Global change biologyen
local.subject.for2020310999 Zoology not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.seo2020280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciencesen
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