Emergent Global Patterns of Ecosystem Structure and Function from a Mechanistic General Ecosystem Model (original) (raw)

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Emergent global-level ecosystem properties.

Properties emergent from the model after a 100-y global (65°N to 65°S) simulation using a grid-cell resolution of two degrees. (A) The spatial distribution of annual mean heterotroph biomass density; breaks in the colour scheme were based on quantiles in the data. (B, C) Latitudinal gradients in biomass density; solid lines represent means for each trophic level, and shading represents the range of values across all longitudes in each latitude band.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001841.g007