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A four-compartment, Nutrient (N), Phytoplankton (P), Zooplankton (Z) and Forage fish (F), nonlinear mathematical model is used to study the seasonal variability of plankton and forage fish in the Chilika lagoon (\(19^{\circ }28'\) N–\(19^{\circ }54'\) N, \(85^{\circ }06'\) E–\(85^{\circ }36'\) E), the largest brackish water lagoon with estuarine character on the east coast of India. It is a highly biological productive and ideal system for aquaculture study. Almost every component at each tropic level of an aquatic food web are dependent on phytoplankton and the availability of nutrient in the study domain. The coupled ordinary differential equations with four state variables represent the interaction of the biological and chemical processes in a marine ecosystem. The main objective of the study is to obtain a set of parameters which can be used in a mathematical model to simulate the ecology of a shallow water lagoon. The model which is presently used in this study enables to bring significant changes in planktonic distribution in the lagoon.
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The author would like to acknowledge Mr. Vijay Kumar, (Senior research fellow, IIT Delhi) for his suggestion and discussion to implement the NPZF model in Chilika Lagoon. Authors are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments which improved the quality and readability of the manuscript to a great extent.
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Panda, B., Dube, A., Kumar, S. (2017). Study of the Seasonal Variability of Plankton and Forage Fish in Chilika Lagoon Using NPZF Model: A Case Study. In: Manchanda, P., Lozi, R., Siddiqi, A. (eds) Industrial Mathematics and Complex Systems. Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3758-0_21
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