Maintenance and development of PCLake, a process-based water quality model for lakes (PCLAKE)

PCLake is a dynamical food web model for shallow lakes. It has been developed to study the impact of eutrophication. The model shows alternative stable states with hysteresis in the switch from a phytoplankton dominated state to macrophyte dominated state. The aim of the current project is to better link the model with theory on species competition and improve its prediction with phytoplankton species competition. 

Theme: 

Restoration ecology, Global environmental change

Funding

PBL

Research team

Sven Teurlincx

Wolf Mooij

Jan Janse