End-to-end models: Management applications

摘要

The need for end-to-end (E2E) models of marine ecosystem is motivated by the recognition of the close coupling between phys ical dynamics and ecological processes in the sea and by a desire for ecosystem-based management of marine resources. However, the complications involved in linking ocean physics to nutrient fluxes through the microbial food web, and then to the demo graphics of dominant fish species and top predators, including humans, contravenes the general definition of science as the art of the soluble (Medawar, 1967), as well as more specific ideas of intermediate complexity as the optimal approach (Friedrichs et al., 2007; Hannah et al., 2010).