Barbara J. Robson

TL;DR: General classes of direct value comparison, coupling real and modelled values, preserving data patterns, indirect metrics based on parameter values, and data transformations are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, a three-dimensional coupled hydrodynamic-ecological model, ELCOM-CAEDYM, was applied to the period of development and subsequent decline of the bloom.

TL;DR: The model simulations show that the hydrological conditions, in combination with high concentrations of inorganic nutrients, promoted rapid phytoplankton growth, favouring dominance by M. aeruginosa in the Swan River estuary.

TL;DR: This systematic review considers how water quality and aquatic ecology models represent the phosphorus cycle and considers how models compare across domains of application, the degree to which current models are fit for purpose, how to choose between multiple alternative formulations, and how models might be improved.

TL;DR: The ten steps of model development are critiqued and applied using a process-based biogeochemical model of aquatic systems, with examples from two case studies: a model of phytoplankton succession and nutrient concentrations in the Swan-Canning Estuary (Western Australia) and a modelof sediment and nutrient transport and transformation in the Fitzroy Estuary and Keppel Bay (Queensland).