Fig. 2: Terrestrial (top panel) and aquatic (bottom panel) food webs assembled in this study.
From: Blue and green food webs respond differently to elevation and land use
The food webs’ locations across Switzerland are based on a stratified, randomised raster approach, and thus representative for the landscape. The pie charts give the food webs’ sizes (number of nodes, as the size of pie charts) and focal-group composition (colours). Note that the three assumptive mega nodes: plant, plankton, and detritus, served as basal resource in all aquatic food webs (Methods). The boxplots show, at where these food webs locate, how different dominant land-use types distribute along elevation. The boxes span lower to upper quartiles with middle lines denoting the medians, the whiskers indicate 1.5 inter-quartile range values, and the dots give respective outliers.
