Articles | Volume 21, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-2493-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-2493-2024
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24 May 2024
Research article |  | 24 May 2024

Killing the predator: impacts of highest-predator mortality on the global-ocean ecosystem structure

David Talmy, Eric Carr, Harshana Rajakaruna, Selina Våge, and Anne Willem Omta

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Code to explore closures for different food web structures Eric Carr and David Talmy https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11193902

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The structure of plankton communities is central to global cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and other elements. This study explored the sensitivity of different assumptions about highest-predator mortality in ecosystem models with contrasting food web structures. In the context of environmental data, we find support for models assuming a density-dependent mortality of the highest predator, irrespective of assumed food web structure.
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