Figure 6.

Total biomass, ∫v(x) dx, for simulations of slow (a) and fast (b) climate change, where one of the patches was pre‐emptively removed, just before the first destabilisation of the 5‐patch configuration (of Figure 4). Note that in (a) the colours for removal of patch 1 (dark blue), patch 3 (green) and patch 5 (orange) overlap as do those for removal of patch 2 (light blue) and patch 4 (yellow). Moreover in the case of a slow climate change (a), the effect of an early removal is also given. Here the patch was removed when a ≈ 0.35 such that the remaining patches had ample opportunity to rearrange themselves into a regular 4‐patch configuration; therefore, it does not matter which patch was removed at this early moment as removal of any patch will yield the same results.