Fig. 5: Variation in removal proportion, allometric scaling, and cumulative function.
From: Superlinear scaling of riverine biogeochemical function with watershed size
Model scenarios describing effects of local process rate (as uptake velocity, υf) and discharge (as a proportion of mean annual discharge) on (A) mean network-scale removal (proportion of inputs from land removed by the entire river network), (B) mean cumulative scaling slope, d, and (C) cumulative aquatic function over the entire river network (log10 kg of material yr−1 in the modeled river network). Each combination of υf and discharge is based on the mean of 27 hydraulic scenarios for a rectangular network as described in Supplementary Table 1. Contour intervals indicate the value for each isobar boundary.
