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The feasibility of applying nonlinear parameter estimation techniques to data from batch culture of phytoplankton is studied using simulated data. A Monod-type model for nutrient uptake and growth in phytoplankton is used for the simulation. A parameter estimation procedure is applied to these data before and after they are noise-corrupted, to obtain back-calculated values of the parameter in the model. The results indicate that nonlinear parameter estimation is well suited fpr analytical interpretation of batch-culture data.
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Lederman, T.C., Hornberger, G.M. & Kelly, M.G. The calibration of a phytoplankton growth model using batch culture data. Water Air Soil Pollut 5, 431–442 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00280844
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