File S1 - Assessing the Contribution of Marine Protected Areas to the Trophic Functioning of Ecosystems: A Model for the Banc d’Arguin and the Mauritanian Shelf

Text S1. Table S2, Diet composition for the base model. Table S3, Effort used for each fleet. Table S4, Composition of the marine mammal group and parameters values for biomass, and P/B and Q/B ratios. Table S5, Composition of the coastal bird groups and parameters used in the model. Table S6, Parameters used to calculate benthos biomass and production by unit of biomass (P/B). Table S7, List of biomass and catch time series available and used in the Ecosim fitting process. Table S8, Proportion of invertebrates from the Banc (pBAi) in diets imposed in each model (M30, Base and P30), and resulting biomass, ecotrophic efficiency (EE) from balancing the Ecopath model, and vulnerability values for each Ecosim model (M30, Base and P30) fitted to the time series. Table S9, Biomass, catch and fishing mortality (C/B) by functional groups based on EwE data (1991) and estimations (2006). Figure S1, Simplified food web structure showing only the trophic links for which the absolute value of the MTI impact is higher than 0.1.
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