Fig 6. Conceptual representation of the whole-plankton model. The top coloured bar represents the periods identified from the clustering analysis based
on biological variables (i.e. PEC time series; coloured bar as in Fig. 3). Each trophic community is represented in a horizontal box, and the boxes are stacking
up from bottom to top. In the primary producers and grazers boxes, the black arrows represent the traditional replacement-based ecological succession. The
stacking of trophic boxes represents the stacking of trophic level occurring over the course of the succession. Each group of organisms depicted here is
defined in Fig. 2. The bottom bars identify the periods of vertical mixing and stability of the water column.
