Table 1.
Comparison and examples of five categories of ecosystem models (modified from Plagany 2007).
Table 2.
List of some of the most relevant marine ecological databases and their attributes to inform ecosystem models.
Figure 1.
Database schema to enter, query and retrieve data for parameterizing ecological network models.
The central element of the schema is the citation value table that links all entries and queries to the data source (red box). The ITIS identifier in the “nodes” table (red line) is used to link the kelpforest database to the ITIS database.
Figure 2.
Map interface with delimited regions in the northeast Pacific.
The interface allows users to identify location from which data were collected in the data entry process. Orange color represents regions, green sub regions and purple locations.
Figure 3.
Example of the database visualization tool illustrating a trophic interaction network for an assemblage of kelp forest seastars, color-coded by functional group after Graham et al. [25].
Table 3.
Example of a csv file exported from the database.