The scenario
Arctic Tundra Food Web represented as a network diagram using IT device metaphors to illustrate energy flow across trophic levels.
What is in this drawing
Read the decisions behind it.
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Using tiered layout to show hierarchical energy flow
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Mapping trophic levels to device kinds (routers for energy, servers for producers, etc.)
This abstraction can be used for educational purposes to map any ecological network into a familiar IT topology.
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