Extended Data Fig. 4: Example of 6 patterns detectable in time series.
From: Forecasting the dynamics of a complex microbial community using integrated meta-omics

a. Basal level, like the one excluded by removing the first EG in the analysis; b. Random noise; c. level change; d. perturbation; e. cycle; f. Crash. In real time series more patterns are usually combined (at least with noise) to create the main data behaviour over time.