Relating Ctenophore Population to Water Mass Indices in the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf Ecosystem

<div>Ctenophore population (<svg height="6.42315pt" id="M124" style="vertical-align:-0.2129903pt" version="1.1" viewbox="-0.0498162 -6.21016 5.62081 6.42315" width="5.62081pt" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g transform="matrix(.0135,0,0,-0.0135,0,0)"><path d="M383 397C383 424 344 448 299 448C244 448 172 409 132 375C66 319 23 227 23 146C23 42 74 -12 146 -12C208 -12 298 30 359 103L343 124C315 95 248 48 192 48C145 48 111 85 111 163C111 228 129 294 151 330C171 363 201 401 241 401C275 401 302 384 325 356C332 347 339 344 348 348C373 360 383 381 383 397Z" id="g113-100"></path><glyph.data ascent="3473" descent="-2876" horiz-adv-x="406" vert-adv-y="406"></glyph.data></g></svg>) as a function of year. The black line plot is raw data from the Link and Ford [<a href="/journals/ijocean/2015/728753/#B15">6</a>] ctenophore index from 1986 to 2008. The red curve describes the ctenophore population as numerical solution (via Mathematica) to the differential equation provided by Eureqa.</div>

International Journal of Oceanography

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Figure 1: Relating Ctenophore Population to Water Mass Indices in the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf Ecosystem 