JPR Advance Access originally published online on June 13, 2006
Journal of Plankton Research 2006 28(9):871-872; doi:10.1093/plankt/fbl014
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Reply to Horizons Article Plankton functional type modelling: running before we can walk Anderson (2005): I. Abrupt changes in marine ecosystems?
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK and The British Antarctic Survey High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
* Corresponding Author: c.lequere@uea.ac.uk
Received April 4, 2006; accepted in principle April 20, 2006; accepted for publication June 7, 2006; published online June 13, 2006
Communicating editor: R.P. Harris
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The ongoing debate in climate projections is not about what will be the most likely climate at the end of the century but about what is the most dangerous climate that may be lying in front of us.
In a recent Horizons paper, Anderson (Anderson, 2005
) argues that the development of global biogeochemistry models must build slowly from the strong foundations that NPZD models have provided us and that the