The Bio Economic Seaweed Model (BESeM) for modelling tropical seaweed cultivation - experimentation and modelling.

ABSTRACT: The Bio Economic Seaweed Model (BESeM) is a model designed for modelling tropical seaweed cultivation. BESeM can simulate the common tropical seaweed cultivation system with multiple harvests per year, clonal reproduction and labour intensive harvesting and replanting activities. Biomass growth is modelled as a sigmoid, with growth being initially exponentially and eventually flattening off towards a maximum weight per plant or per square meter (w _f,max ). To estimate the latter, longer duration experiments than normal are needed - in the order of 100 days rather than 45 days. Drying (on platforms on the beach) is simulated as well as increase in harvested chemical concentration over time since planting, for harvested chemicals such as agar extracted from Gracil

SUBMITTER: van Oort PAJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9390115 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature