This report constitutes the Master of Science thesis of the same
title completed by the author in May, 1973, and accepted by the Department
of Systems and Industrial Engineering. It is the result of a joint
research project on "Decision analysis of watershed management
alternatives," supported in part by the United States Department of the
Interior, Office of Water Resources Research, as authorized under the
Water Resources Research Act of 1964. / Various approaches to modeling phytoplanktonzooplankton-
nutrient interactions have been investigated.
A stochastic birth- death model was developed to describe
changes in phytoplankton and zooplankton population
levels at a given point. Tuie stochastic birth -death model
was combined with a deterministic mass balance of limiting
nutrient concentration to form an over -all system theoretic
model that enables one to use Monte Carlo simulation
to study the problem of eutrophication. A comparison made
between this modeling approach and the standard differential
equation approach suggested that further
investigation was desirable, particularly in the area of
model calibration.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/620099 |
| Date | 06 1900 |
| Creators | Friedman, Joel Herbert |
| Contributors | Department of Hydrology & Water Resources, The University of Arizona |
| Publisher | Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Technical Report |
| Source | Provided by the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources. |
| Rights | Copyright © Arizona Board of Regents |
| Relation | Technical Reports on Natural Resource Systems, No. 21 |
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