Extended Data Fig. 8: Density plots of the posterior distributions of the estimated random slopes for the temperature change effect per taxonomic group in the marine realm.
From: Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems
The black vertical line indicates the overall slope estimate for each biodiversity response, with the corresponding 95% credible interval as grey shading; vertical dotted lines indicate zero. The numbers in brackets indicate the number of time series for each taxonomic group (see Supplementary Tables 3–6 for complete model outputs). In two instances, these distributions showed some tendency for deviating from the overall estimated mean. Specifically, “Birds” showed more negative trends for richness change than the average across taxa, and “Multiple taxa” showed more positive trends for abundance change than the average estimate. Yet, both distributions showed extensive overlap with the other taxonomic groups, as well as with the confidence intervals for the overall mean responses. Thus, we refrain from reading too much into these patterns, given the biases in the BioTIME data, and rather focus on the general patterns of change. Credit: b farias, CL (wave image), The Noun Project (https://thenounproject.com/).
