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Figure 5

From: Modelling potential impacts of bottom trawl fisheries on soft sediment biogeochemistry in the North Sea†

Figure 5

Model simulation results showing steady state total benthic CO2 production and the proportion of that production due to direct aerobic processes as a function of physical mixing (PMM) hypothetically caused by trawling activity. Macrofauna are kept at a level of about 70 mmol (C) m-2 for all simulations. At PMM levels greater than 15, the model has multiple solutions.

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