A model of the seasonal dynamics of biomass and production of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica in the Bay of Calvi (Northwestern Mediterranean)

• Published in: Ecological modelling Vol. 167; no. 1; pp. 1 - 18
• Main Authors: Elkalay, Khalid, Frangoulis, Constantin, Skliris, Nikos, Goffart, Anne, Gobert, Sylvie, Lepoint, Gilles, Hecq, Jean-Henri
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.09.2003; Elsevier; Elsevier Science Bv
• Subjects: Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Bay of Calvi; Biological and medical sciences; Biologie végétale (sciences végétales, sylviculture, mycologie...); Biomass; Corsica; Environmental sciences & ecology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects. Techniques; Growth model; Life sciences; Marine; Mediterranean Sea; Methods and techniques (sampling, tagging, trapping, modelling...); Phytobiology (plant sciences, forestry, mycology...); Posidonia oceanica; Production; Sciences de l’environnement & écologie; Sciences du vivant; Seagrass; Sensitivity; Shading effect; shading effect sensitivity; Ligurian Sea; France; Mediterranean Sea; Corsica; Europe; MED, Ligurian Sea; MED, France, Corse, Haute-Corse, Calvi; MED, Western Mediterranean; Shading effect; Bay of Calvi; Sensitivity; Growth model; Production; Seagrass; Posidonia oceanica; Biomass; Monocotyledones; Growth; Epiphyte; Environmental factor; Vegetation dynamics; Potamogetonaceae; Angiospermae; Spermatophyta; Models; Sea grass; Bay; Aquatic plant; Interspecific relation

Modelling of seagrasses can be an effective tool to assess factors regulating their growth. Growth and production model of Posidonia oceanica, the dominant submerged aquatic macrophyte occurring in the Bay of Calvi (Corsica, Ligurian Sea, Northwestern (NW) Mediterranean) was developed. The state var...