Species specific Q10 - biology.prm
This is a non-compulsory change the model ‘should’ still run without making these changes.
There is now support for supplying species specific Q10 values.
The Q10 value is used to calculate the following temperature correction value:
Tcorr = Q10^((T-15)/10.)
The Tcorr values is used to in a number of calculations to calculate temperature sensitive values such as reproduction, mortality and growth.
The original code used to use a single Q10 for all functional groups.
You can now specify a value per functional group by adding the following lines to the biology input file:
q10_FPL 1
q10_FPO 2
q10_FPS 2
q10_FVD 2
q10_FVV 2
q10_FVS 2
….
where the values after the ’_’ is the groups standard code.
If you do not specify a value for a functional group the default Q10 value in the input file will be used.