Table 1.

List of aquatic ecosystem models and their governing equations for phytoplankton nutrient limitation

Model	Equation to describe nutrient limitation	Reference	Application example
CE-QUAL-W2	Monod equation	(Cole and Wells 2000)	(Kim et al. 2019)
EFDC	Monod equation	(Hamrick, 1996)	(Jiang et al. 2018)
CAEDYM	Monod and Droop equations	(Hipsey et al. 2006)	(Robson and Hamilton 2004)
PCLake	Droop equation	(Janse and van Liere 1995)	(Bucak et al. 2018)
PROTECH	Monod and Droop equations	(Reynolds et al. 2001)	(Gray et al. 2019)
BLOOM/GEM	Monod and other	(Hydraulics, 2011)	(Li et al. 2015)