Acclimation, adaptation, traits and trade-offs in plankton functional type models: Reconciling terminology for biology and modelling

Flynn, Kevin J., St John, Michael, Raven, John A., Skibinski, David O.F., Allen, J. Icarus, Mitra, Aditee ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5572-9331 and Hofmann, Eileen E. 2015. Acclimation, adaptation, traits and trade-offs in plankton functional type models: Reconciling terminology for biology and modelling. Journal of Plankton Research 37 (4) , pp. 683-691. 10.1093/plankt/fbv036

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Abstract

We propose definitions in terminology to enhance ongoing collaborations between biologists and modellers on plankton ecology. Organism “functional type” should refer to commonality in ecology not biogeochemistry; the latter is largely an emergent property of the former, while alignment with ecology is also consistent with usage in terrestrial science. Adaptation should be confined, as in genetics, to consideration of species inter-generational change; most so-called “adaptive” plankton models are thus acclimative, modifying vital rates in response to stimuli. Trait trade-off approaches should ideally only be considered for describing intra-generational interactions; in applications between generations, and certainly between unrelated species, such concepts should be avoided. We suggest that systems biology approaches, through to complex adaptive/acclimative systems modelling, with explicit modelling of feedback processes (which we suggest should define “mechanistic” models), would provide realistic and flexible bases upon which to develop descriptions of functional type models.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Earth and Environmental Sciences
Publisher:	Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy B - Oxford Open Option A
ISSN:	0142-7873
Date of Acceptance:	14 April 2015
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2022 09:37
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/129698

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