Modeled buoyancy of eggs and larvae of the deep-sea shrimp Aristeus antennatus (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea
Fig 3
Scenarios of Individuals-Based Models related to the larval drift characteristics and the environmental influences.
The different scenarios of Individuals-Based Models used in this study are represented by blue symbols (circle, triangle or square) and visualized with the characteristics of larval drift and environmental influences (arrow). In the Principal Component Analysis (PCA), the correlation among the characteristics is indicated by the angle between arrows (i.e., an angle of 90° indicates no correlation and an angle of 180° indicates a negative correlation). Scenarios were correlated to the larval drift characteristics and environmental influences by the closeness of their Cartesian coordinates. The PCA grouped IBM0, IBMMLD, IBMHot, and IBMTurb (square), and separated IBMPZ (circle) and IBMLS (triangle). IBM scenarios are described in Table 1.