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

Figure 2

Ctenophore population () as a function of year. The black line plot is a three-year moving average of the raw data from the Link and Ford [6] ctenophore index from 1986 to 2008. The red curve describes the ctenophore population as a numerical solution (via Mathematica) to the differential equation provided by Eureqa.