Figure 4.
The effects of meta-ecosystem network structure on local ecosystem dynamics after the local equilibrium solution is destabilized by high nutrient movement. The colours of the graphic insets indicate which time series is to be found in the local ecosystem, which means if two local ecosystems share the same colour, they have the same temporal dynamics. With dA equal to zero, the two meta-ecosystem configurations (a,b) show large oscillations in their most connected ecosystems, though the patterns differ greatly between them. With dA equal to 0.045, meta-ecosystems (c,d) continue to show oscillations, but the most centralized ecosystems no longer show the highest amplitude oscillations; however, the temporal and spatial dynamics differ greatly between them.