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Resumenes 74<br />
structure and functin <strong>of</strong> ecosystems. In or<strong>de</strong>r to evaluate the effect <strong>of</strong> the<br />
UVR on marine planktonic systems a mesocosmos experiment was carried<br />
out. Ten mesocosmos having 1500 liters each were incubated with <strong>of</strong> micro<br />
and mezoplancton and exposed to normal and enhanced UVR doses. The<br />
system can imagine like constituted by five biological compartments:<br />
"small" phytoplankton (cells with diameter lesser than 5 µm), "big"<br />
phytoplankton (cells between 5 and 20 µm <strong>of</strong> diameter), bacteria, predatory<br />
zooplankton (ciliates) and <strong>de</strong>tritivore zooplankton (heterotrophic<br />
flagellates). Compartments may be conected directly (by predator- prey<br />
relationships) or indirectly (via dissolved organic carbon that are consumed<br />
mainly by bacteria or via particulate organic carbon that is consumed by<br />
heterotrophic flagellates).<br />
A mo<strong>de</strong>l is proposed consi<strong>de</strong>ring logistic grow for phytoplankton<br />
blocks and exponential grow for the rest <strong>of</strong> the components.<br />
The mo<strong>de</strong>l successfully predicts fluctuations observed in the<br />
experiment. Although bacteria and phytoplankton suffer damage by UVR,<br />
their populations grow. This happens by effect <strong>of</strong> a diminution <strong>of</strong> the<br />
predator’s activity because ciliates are also damaged by UVR. An effect <strong>of</strong><br />
apparent competition between bacteria and small phytoplankton takes place<br />
since an increase in anyone <strong>of</strong> those two populations increases the number<br />
<strong>of</strong> predators producing a <strong>de</strong>pression in the other although they do not<br />
compete directly by resources.-<br />
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