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Figure 5

From: Shorebird patches as fingerprints of fractal coastline fluctuations due to climate change

Figure 5

Fractal dimension time series of the shorebirds patches and of the coastline. (a) Time series of the fractal dimension D f of the entire coastline (blue line), of the salt-marsh (red), and of the beach (green) habitat coastlines, determined by the box-counting algorithm. (b) Fractal dimension D K over time for the patches for SNPL (blue dots), PIPL (red), and REKN (green) derived from Korčak’s law. The dashed gray lines (a, b) represent the 95% confidence interval of the estimated D f and D K . (c) Scaling relationship among the fractal dimension of the patches for the threatened, endangered, and potentially at-risk shorebird species (TER-s) and the fractal dimension of the favorable habitat coastlines (salt marsh for PIPL, and beach for SNPL and REKN). The average species-independent scaling exponent is γ= 1.67. The gray cloud (c) represents the 95% confidence interval for the linear regression between D K and D f .

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