Sustained plankton blooms under open chaotic flows

dc.creatorHernandez-Garcia, Emilio
dc.creatorLopez, Cristobal
dc.date2003-11-26
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:35:08Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:35:08Z
dc.descriptionWe consider a predator-prey model of planktonic population dynamics, of excitable character, living in an open and chaotic fluid flow, i.e., a state of fluid motion in which fluid trajectories are unbounded but a chaotic region exists that is restricted to a localized area. Despite that excitability is a transient phenomenon and that fluid trajectories are continuously leaving the system, there is a regime of parameters where the excitation remains permanently in the system, given rise to a persistent plankton bloom. This regime is reached when the time scales associated to fluid stirring become slower than the ones associated to biological growth.
dc.description14 pages, 3 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0311054
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0311054
dc.identifierEcological Complexity 1, 253 (2004)
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/80610
dc.subjectChaotic Dynamics
dc.subjectPopulations and Evolution
dc.titleSustained plankton blooms under open chaotic flows
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