oyster.m

Flow-storage data for six compartment energy model of an oyster reef ecosystem (Dame&Patten 1981).

Description

This function returns the composite data matrix for the intertidal oyster reef ecosystem model created by Dame and Patten (1981). Data were taken from Patten (1985).

Model flows are in kcal m^-2 day^-1;
storage data is kcal m^-2. This function returns the model data in the appropriate form for use with NEA.m (Fath and Borrett, 2004).

Dame, R. F., and B. C. Patten. 1981. Analysis of energy flows in an intertidal oyster reef. Marine Ecology Progress Series 5:115-124.

Patten, B. C. 1985. Energy cycling, length of food chains, and direct versus indirect effects in ecosystems. Can. Bull. Fish. Aqu. Sci. 213:119-138.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.5 (R13)
• Other requirements: Data input for for NEA.m.