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Figure 2

From: Heavy rainfall triggers increased nocturnal flight in desert populations of the Pacific black duck (Anas superciliosa)

Figure 2

Panels A-C are rainfall maps showing cyclone Yasi’s movement across Australia, 1–6 February 2011, and onto our study sites. Colours indicate rainfall (mm) during 4 hours. Images from ©NASA (http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_rain/Events/australia_tc_rain_jan-apr_2011_movie.gif). Panel D is for the AA ecosystem, and shows movement indicated by displacement during two hours (shown in red), daily nocturnality index (S.E.) (shown in black), and daily rainfall (shown in green), all plotted against month during 2011 (January – August) including the arrival of cyclone Yasi (n = 22.2 k GPS fixes); beneath monthly rainfall. Displacement was smoothed using a running average with sampling proportion of 0.1 in Sigmaplot 12.0. Rainfall was the mean daily rainfall from three nearest stations. Panel E is as for panel D but for the MS ecosystem and n = 31.7 k GPS fixes; daily rainfall mean is from four nearest weather stations.

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