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Ecosystem modelling work at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography within what was formerly called the Marine Ecology Laboratory has been based on comparative studies of similar types of ecosystems. Through cooperative work with Dutch, German, and British scientists a generic approach to estuarine modelling was developed in which the first step in creating a new site-specific simulation model involves reparametrization and modification of an existing model. This methodology was successfully tested by constructing an ecosystem model of the Cumberland Basin in the Bay of Fundy (Gordon et al. 1986)
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Silvert, W. (1988). Generic Models of Continental Shelf Ecosystems. In: Wolff, W., Soeder, CJ., Drepper, F.R. (eds) Ecodynamics. Research Reports in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73953-8_15
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