Fig. 2: The impact of fishery scenarios. | Nature Communications

Fig. 2: The impact of fishery scenarios.

From: Maintaining ecological stability for sustainable economic yields of multispecies fisheries in complex food webs

Fig. 2

Five response variables at the food web level showing the impact of fishery scenarios (x-axis, colour code) (see Table 1 for definitions): A Species persistence; (B) Food-web biomass change, excluding harvested species; (C) Sustained total biomass catch by all three fisheries; (D) Sustained total revenue by all three fisheries and; (E) Sustained number of fisheries. The dot is the mean; the middle line of the boxplots represents the median and box limits correspond to the 0.25 and 0.75 quantiles. Whiskers represent the 1.5 interquartile range. The food webs containing the top and bottom 0.05 quantile were identified and removed for each indicator to aid in visualisation, leaving n = 731 food webs for each harvest scenario.

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