Model predictions for the population persistence under realistic conditions of seasonal temperature food concentration and predator abundance. Several combinations ofmortality
parameters were tested: background mortality, mN [0–0.05]; initial egg mortality, mspat [0–1]; fraction of mussels in shrimp diet, ρS [0–1]; fraction of mussels in crab diet, ρC [0–1], and
fraction of mussels in bird diet, ρB f0; 0:5; 1 g. a) represents an example of each plot in each panel, corresponding to the model results for different combinations of shrimp and crab
diets for fixed values of initial egg and background mortality. Each model simulation is represented by a dot. The color black represent scenarios where alive mussels were found, after
30 years of simulation, and gray represent scenarios where all the mussels die. b), c) and, d) represent, respectively, a map of the results found for the three tested values of the fraction
of mussels in bird diet, ρB f0; 0:5; 1 g.