Benguela: Benguela Marine Ecosystem.

In foodweb: Generating food webs

Description

The Benguela Marine Ecosystem, up to Marine Mammals and Fisheries, as in Yodzis (1998).

The food web comprises 29 functional compartments, comprising phytoplankton, benthic filter-feeders, bacteria, benthic carnivores, microzooplankton, mesozooplankton, macrozooplankton, gelatinous zooplankton, anchovy, pilchard, round herring, lightfish, lanternfish, goby, other pelagics, horse mackerel, chub mackerel, other groundfish, hakes, squid, tunas, snoek, kob, yellowtail, geelbek, whales & dolphins, birds, seals and sharks.

There are no export, or import compartments

Usage

Benguela

Format

matrix with flow values, where element (i,j) denotes flow from compartment i to j

rownames and columnames are the components.

Author(s)

Karline Soetaert <[e-mail]>

References

Yodzis, P., 1988. Local Trophodynamics and the Interaction of Marine Mammals and Fisheries in the Benguela Ecosystem. Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 635-658

See Also

generate.random, generate.cascade, generate.niche, to generate random, cascade and niche food webs

Interval, the food web intervality index.

Examples

unlist(GenInd(Flow = Benguela))

TrophInd(Flow = Benguela)

plotweb(Benguela)

foodweb documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:56 p.m.