Extended Data Fig. 4: Explanation of changes in the number of species per SAD section.
From: Disproportionate declines of formerly abundant species underlie insect loss
a, The SAD (the number of species per bin), in years 1 and 10 of a hypothetical time series. Scaled in relation to the highest observed log10-transformed value in the whole time series, we have binned the log10-transformed species abundance values in two ways. b,c, We assigned five equally spaced sections (b), and four quartiles (c), where the quartiles had approximately equal species numbers (variation because of rounding of bins). After the bins were assigned, we calculated the number of species falling in each bin in each year.
