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MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
Volume 14, Issue 5-6, Pages 1091-1117Publisher
AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS
DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2017057
Keywords
Phytoplankton; temperature variation; ecological reproductive index; cyclic dynamics
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- RFCP-CMSP
- [NSFC-11671072]
- [11271065]
- [RFDP-20130043110001]
- [FRFCU-14ZZ1309]
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An non-autonomous nutrient-phytoplankton interacting model incorporating the effect of time-varying temperature is established. The impacts of temperature on metabolism of phytoplankton such as nutrient uptake, death rate, and nutrient releasing from particulate nutrient are investigated. The ecological reproductive index is formulated to present a threshold criteria and to characterize the dynamics of phytoplankton. The positive invariance, dis-sipativity, and the existence and stability of boundary and positive periodic solution are established. The analyses rely on the comparison principle, the coincidence degree theory and Lyapunov direct method. The effect of seasonal temperature and daily temperature on phytoplankton biomass are simulated numerically. Numerical simulation shows that the phytoplankton biomass is very robust to the variation of water temperature. The dynamics of the model and model predictions agree with the experimental data. Our model and analysis provide a possible explanation of triggering mechanism of phytoplankton blooms.
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