Trait selection and co-existence of phytoplankton in partially mixed systems: Trait based modelling and potential of an aggregated approach
Fig 6
Illustration of the generation of bi-modal trait distributions by mixing: Two communities that are characterized by the same master trait have trait distributions of Gaussian form with the same concentration CT and variance Trvar, but differ in the mean community trait Trav (A, B).
Mixing of these two communities results in a community that has a bi-modal distribution of the master trait (C).
