Modeling 443 



TABLE 10-8 (Continued) 



Symbol Description Value 



c.i28 Maximum assimilation efficiency of fairyshrimp 0.25 



C229 Specific (per mg) respiration rate of fairyshrimp 0.00015 



(mgC(mgChr) ') 

 £"230 ^10 for fairyshrimp respiration 2.0 



C231 Specific (per mg) death rate of fairyshrimp (mg C (mgC hr) ') 0.002 



C232 Fraction of dead fairyshrimp transferred to sestonic detritus 0.6 



C301 Specific (per mg) respiration rate for vascular plants 0.0003 



(mgC(mgChr) ') 

 C302 Specific (per mg) J^^ax for vascular plant photosynthesis at 0.0015 



reference temperature (mg C (mg C hr) ') 

 C30.) Half-saturation constant for light for vascular plant photosynthesis 5.0 



(cal cm ^ min ~ ') 

 C304 ^lofor vascular plant photosynthesis 2.0 



C3o.n Fraction of net photosynthesis lost to U-DOC due to excretion 0.03 



(mgC(mgC) ') 

 CMf, Specific (per mg) leaching rate of new litter carbon 8.75 x 10 ' 



(mgC(mgChr) ') 

 Cio7 Fraction of new litter carbon leached to R-DOC 0.04 



(mgC(mgC) ') 

 C30H Specific (per mg) death rateof vascular plant leaves transferred to 5x10" 



new litter (mg C (mg C hr) ') 

 C309 2 10 for vascular plant respiration 2.5 



C310 Specific (per mg) dark excretion rate of vascular plants 0.0001 



(mgC(mgChr)-') 

 C401 Specific (per mg) rate of sedimentation of sestonic detritus to 0.0 



benthic detritus (mg C (mg C hr) ') 

 c.ioi Fractional exchange constant for equilibrium between water 0.02 



column U-DOC and benthic U-DOC (mg C (mg C hr) ') = K501 



in benthic model 

 c=,02 Fractional exchange constant for the equilibrium between water 0.0 



column R-DOC and benthic R-DOC (mg C (mg C hr) " ') 

 c.wi Specific (per mg) rate of photooxidation of R-DOC to U-DOC 2 Ax 10 "' 



per unit light (mg C (mg C hr) ' (cal (cm" hr) ' ') ') 

 c-M* Specific (per mg) rate of photooxidation of R-DOC to U-DOC — i .2 x 10 " ' 



at light intensity (i.e., Y intercept in photooxidation vs light 



intensity function) (mg C (mg C hr) ') 

 C901 Volume/area conversion factor for planktonic system (m ' m ' ') 1.66 



