Predicted Effects of Behavioural Movement and Passive Transport on Individual Growth and Community Size Structure in Marine Ecosystems - Advances in Ecological Research - page 89

Species mass-trophic height Predator mass-prey mass Predator mass-PPMR

A B C D E

Ce Tr Co

Tr

Tr

1.0 1.0

Tr

Ce
Co

Ce

0.5

Af Gu

Ce

Br

0.8 0.8

Ta

Br
Ce

Gu

Af

Br Br

Ce

Gu

Ta

Gu Co

Ta

Ta

0.4

0.6 0.6

Co

Af

Br

Gu

Ta

Af Af

Gu

0.4 0.4

Af

Co

0.3

Af

Co

Ta

Gu Ta Ce

Co

Br

Ta

Ta

Gu

Ce Br

Tr

Br

Af

Br Gu

0.2 0.2

Ta

Ce Br

C Co

Broadstone Stream
Celtic Sea
Coilaco River
Guampoe River
Trancura River
Tadnoll Brook
Afon Hirnant

Af

Gu

Tr

0.2

Co

Tr

0.0 0.0

Tr

Tr

* ** * ** *

Af Co Tr

D* F* AD CF AD CF

Resolution or grouping aggregations used in comparisons

Figure 4 Resolution comparisons (open boxplots) and grouping comparisons (grey boxplots) of trophic ordering response variables.
The significance level of the Welch two-sample t-test is indicated by stars (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01). x-axis labels denote the level of
aggregation used (as in Table 1 and Figures 1-3 ). Specific system slopes are represented by colours with filled circles denoting a
significance level of 95%. Black diamonds connected by a dashed line show mean slopes for each response variable compared. For
trophic height, no comparison could be done between different levels of resolution. Abbreviations for the study systems are Broadstone
Stream (Br), Celtic Sea (Ce), Coilaco River (Co), Guampoe River (Gu), Trancura River (Tr), Tadnoll Brook (Ta), Afon Hirnant (Af).