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ecopath_matlab: A Matlab-based implementation of the Ecopath food web algorithm

Highlights

  • The Ecopath with Ecosim model (Christensen and Walters 2004) is one of the most widelyused ecosystem modeling frameworks in fisheries science, and its use has contributed to over 400 scientific publications (E. Akoglu et al 2015)

  • The software is centered on a mass-balance algorithm (Ecopath) that uses commonly-measured metrics of fish and fisheries to quantify key features of a food web network, including biomass/energy of all state variables in an ecosystem and the fluxes between them

  • While the Ecopath with Ecosim software is freely available at www.ecopath.org, and its source code is available by request from the authors for development of external plugins (Steenbeek et al 2015), several design factors of that software limit its ease of use for extended development

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The Ecopath with Ecosim model (Christensen and Walters 2004) is one of the most widelyused ecosystem modeling frameworks in fisheries science, and its use has contributed to over 400 scientific publications (E. Akoglu et al 2015). The Ecopath with Ecosim model (Christensen and Walters 2004) is one of the most widelyused ecosystem modeling frameworks in fisheries science, and its use has contributed to over 400 scientific publications The software is centered on a mass-balance algorithm (Ecopath) that uses commonly-measured metrics of fish and fisheries to quantify key features of a food web network, including biomass/energy of all state variables in an ecosystem (living groups, detrital pools, and fishing fleets) and the fluxes between them.

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