Fig. 7: Analysis of meadow-wide vegetation persistence from historical imagery. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 7: Analysis of meadow-wide vegetation persistence from historical imagery.

From: Continual migration of patches within a Massachusetts seagrass meadow limits carbon accretion and storage

Fig. 7

a Area of vegetation cover \({A}_{{{{\rm{v}}}}}\) within the meadow area \(A\), versus year of the image. In 1978 (open symbol) no vegetation was visible, so the ratio \({A}_{{{{\rm{v}}}}}/A\) was not determinable. b Percentage of vegetation cover in an image of interest that was consecutively vegetated in chronologically earlier images versus the time interval between the images. The symbols outlined in red (connected by red lines) denote comparisons with the July 2022 drone image. More recent images are denoted by darker shades of gray.

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