Fennel W, Neumann T
Baltic Sea Research Institute Warnemünde, University of Rostock, Seestr. 15, D-18119 Rostock, Germany.
Ambio. 2001 Aug;30(4-5):232-6.
The dynamics of marine ecosystems, i.e. the changes of observable chemical-biological quantities in space and time, are driven by biological and physical processes. Predictions of future developments of marine systems need a theoretical framework, i.e. models, solidly based on research and understanding of the different processes involved. The natural way to describe marine systems theoretically seems to be the embedding of chemical-biological models into circulation models. However, while circulation models are relatively advanced the quantitative theoretical description of chemical-biological processes lags behind. This paper discusses some of the approaches and problems in the development of consistent theories and indicates the beneficial potential of the coupling of marine biology and oceanography in models.
海洋生态系统的动态变化，即可观测的化学 - 生物量在空间和时间上的变化，是由生物和物理过程驱动的。对海洋系统未来发展的预测需要一个理论框架，即模型，该模型要牢固地建立在对所涉及的不同过程的研究和理解基础之上。从理论上描述海洋系统的自然方式似乎是将化学 - 生物模型嵌入到环流模型中。然而，虽然环流模型相对先进，但化学 - 生物过程的定量理论描述却滞后了。本文讨论了在发展连贯理论过程中的一些方法和问题，并指出了在模型中耦合海洋生物学和海洋学的潜在益处。
