Numerical studies of the influence of food ingestion on phytoplankton and zooplankton biomasses

This paper presents the numerical simulations of the influence of food ingestion by a herbivorous copepod on phytoplankton and zooplankton biomasses (PZB) in the sea. The numerical studies were carried out using the phytoplankton- -zooplankton-nutrient-detritus PhyZooNuDe biological upperla yer model. This takes account both of fully developed primary production and regeneration mechanisms and of daily migration of zooplankton. In this model the zooplankton is treated not as a ‘biomass’ but as organisms having definite patterns of growth, reproduction and mortality.