Fig. 3: Distribution of the biomass changes caused by the six fishery scenarios across the trophic levels of populations in the food webs. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Distribution of the biomass changes caused by the six fishery scenarios across the trophic levels of populations in the food webs.

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

Fig. 3

Relative biomass changes represent the non-extinct population biomass densities at the end of the fisheries simulations compared to their initial densities before fisheries were introduced. The trophic levels of the populations are rounded to the nearest 0.5 for clarity. 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. Number of data points for each scenario are 111,395 (Distance), 109,343 (Prices), 112,224 (Productivity), 111,934 (Random), 111,432 (Similar), 112,030 (Balanced).

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