Fig. 3: The magnitudes of the difference between actual and ostensible scales.

a,b, Difference between extent and actual extent (the summed area of spatial replicates) (a), and duration and actual duration (the summed sampling duration across temporal replicates) (b). Difference values are expressed in terms of how many orders of magnitude larger (longer) extent (duration) is than actual extent (actual duration), and are summarized (as box plots, with the circle in the box representing the mean and the line the median) in bins representing the increasing scales of extent (duration). The percentages of observations falling within each bin are indicated by the colour of the interquartile and the numerical value above the upper whisker.