Fig. 5: Spatial sensitivity of the results and comparison to previous publications.
From: A rare oasis effect for forage fauna in oceanic eddies at the global scale
Map showing the percentage of eddies having a significant effect (increasing and decreasing combined) on forage fauna among all eddies sampled in one grid cell on a 3° spatial grid (e.g. a grid cell with 10 sampled eddies, including 6 with a significant effect would show 60%) (colours), (B) and the corresponding latitudinal distribution. C Mean amplitude (colours) of all eddies detected over the period 1993–2021 on the same 3° spatial grid as (A). The crossed squares indicate the mean localisation of previous studies looking the effect of mesoscale eddies on forage fauna (see Table S1 for complete references). The localizations of the published papers were extracted from the different studies, and when the study was spread, the mean study localisation was computed. Red contours in (A) represented regions with mean amplitude >0.1 m extracted from (C). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
