Fig. 4: Modelled ecosystem responses to illustrative WRD scenarios.
From: Integrated assessment of river development on downstream marine fisheries and ecosystems
a, MICE ensemble average decline (relative to the baseline flow scenario, with standard deviation shown as error bars) of biomass indicators for (from top to bottom) common banana prawns, barramundi, mud crabs, largetooth sawfish (numbers), mangroves and seagrass under alternative illustrative water development scenarios (Fig. 1b) applied to three river systems and shown for the south-east subsection of the GoC. b, MICE ensemble average decline in units of fishery catches, which generally were of similar magnitude to biomass, although relatively larger in the case of barramundi. The sample size for each bar is n = 155. Credit: species icons, PhyloPic.
