An updated end-to-end ecosystem model of the Northern California Current reflecting ecosystem changes due to recent marine heatwaves
Fig 8
Validation; biomass-specific production and consumption values by trophic level.
(A) The y-axis is the log-scaled production to biomass ratio (biomass-specific production) and the x-axis numbers indicate the different functional groups (see Table 1) sorted by increasing trophic level (far left is low trophic levels, e.g., phytoplankton, and far right is high trophic levels, e.g., marine mammals). (B) The y-axis is the log-scaled consumption to biomass ratio (biomass-specific consumption) and the x-axis is the same as in panel A. The y axes are on the log scale, so negative values indicate P/B and C/B values (for A and B, respectively) less than 1 on the original scale.