An important component of SEAPODYM is the tuna forage sub-model that explores the dynamics of tuna prey organisms, consisting of macrozooplankton and micronekton, mainly crustaceans, fish and cephalopods from 2cm to 20 cm in size. The SEAPODYM team did not try to develop a detailed explicit food web model for the whole pelagic ecosystem in the Pacific Ocean, instead the tuna forage was considered as a single population.

 Tuna Forage Model (225.92 kB)