Abstract
Until now the most of studies concerning the dynamics of the Portuguese coastal ecosystem focused in estuarine, lagoon and rivers systems, whereas more knowledge about the spatial and the seasonal distribution of phytoplankton population at the coast is still needed. The present work is aimed to study some aspects of ecological modelling of the nearshore Aveiro coastal system, namely the influence of physical forcings in the distribution of phytoplankton biomass. In order to implement the ecological model, the validation of the model were assessed by comparing simulation to data to a vertical and horizontal distribution of temperature, nutrients and phytoplankton biomass, obtained from the several surveys performed along the Portuguese coast during the last decades (Moita, 2001). The results evidence, that the physical processes play an important role in the understanding the phytoplankton dynamics and the close relationship between the physical forcings and the temperature and the phytoplankton distributions.
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