SI cleanup

[teixeirak]

@beckybanbury, I'm making a new issue, separate from #44, to track minor cleanup of SI materials.

General

• [x] fix insertion of extra pages
• [x] authors list on title page is cut off-- maybe something to do with landscape orientation in the doc?
• [x] figure numbering is off (two S2)

Table S1

• [x] add column including abbreviations for each climate variable (to be used in Fig. S2)
• [x] It looks like there are some variables that we never end up using (e.g., Water stress months). Drop these from the table.
• [ ] Check the definition of temperature seasonality. It doesn't make sense. Should it be "Standard deviation of monthly MAT *100"? (formerly issue #32, which I'll close).
• [x] would help to increase font size/ adjust columns to get rid of extra space

Fig. S1.

• good

Fig. S2

• [x] axis labels are unreadable. Please use just abbreviations from Table S1. Add to caption, "Variable names and units given in Table S1).

Fig. S3

• [x] put latitude first
• [x] move legend above plot, which will allow figures to be bigger
• [x] remove "ratio" from y-label, and instead list each ratio in front of its row (e.g., GPP/NPP).
• [x] Remove letters (which are off, by the way) and labels above each row

Figs. S4-S7

• [x] remove "productivity" from y-label (not applicable to all FACF), and instead list each flux in front of its row. Put units in parentheses.
• [x] Remove letters (which are off, by the way) and labels above each row
• [x] It would probably be better to use climate variable abbreviations, as the font is small enough that its not easy to read.

Figs. S8-S9

• [x] change "productivity" in y-label to "C flux"
• [x] put label for each flux in front of its row
• [x] Remove letters (which are off, by the way) and labels above each row
• [x] It would probably be better to use climate variable abbreviations, as the font is small enough that its not easy to read.

[beckybanbury]

@teixeirak I've been confused by the definition of temperature and precipitation seasonality: the definitions given by worldclim are here: http://worldclim.org/bioclim Can you make any sense of them?

[beckybanbury]

@teixeirak all the variables that are in the table we did test (they're mentioned as being non-significant at the end of the results section); shall I take them out anyway if we don't use them in the discussion/graphs?

[teixeirak]

@teixeirak all the variables that are in the table we did test (they're mentioned as being non-significant at the end of the results section); shall I take them out anyway if we don't use them in the discussion/graphs?

no, leave them in.

[beckybanbury]

@teixeirak Re: the labels above each row, I plotted them that way because it's hard to fit in the longer flux names (e.g. ANPP woody stem) and ratio names along the y axis without having names overlap. I'm having that issue trying to replot the ratios, just because the plots are small and the labels are long - if I shrink the labels to fit them in, it becomes quite hard to read.

[teixeirak]

@teixeirak Re: the labels above each row, I plotted them that way because it's hard to fit in the longer flux names (e.g. ANPP woody stem) and ratio names along the y axis without having names overlap. I'm having that issue trying to replot the ratios, just because the plots are small and the labels are long - if I shrink the labels to fit them in, it becomes quite hard to read.

Oh, I see. Why don't you just drop the letters, then? Those are off, and are never cited. Then, change the y label to "C flux (Mg ha-1 yr-1)".

[beckybanbury]

sure! How is this for the ratio plots?

[teixeirak]

@teixeirak I've been confused by the definition of temperature and precipitation seasonality: the definitions given by worldclim are here: http://worldclim.org/bioclim Can you make any sense of them?

No... I also looked at those descriptions and agree that they're inadequate. I guess it takes a bit more digging (maybe a google scholar search for "worldclim" and "temperature seasonality"?). I'll have to look back-- I may have figured it out at one point in the past.

[teixeirak]

Gr

sure! How is this for the ratio plots?

Great! Just remember a y-axis label ("Flux ratio" or just "ratio")

[beckybanbury]

@teixeirak I've just pushed an updated copy of SI. I've a problem with the blank pages that are getting added in (if you know how to remove them that would be handy as I can't seem to!), but otherwise let me know if any other alterations are needed!

[teixeirak]

I spent a bit of time trying to get rid of those extra pages, but no success.

I also tried to increase the font size on Table S1, which has small font but lots of extra space.

[teixeirak]

I noticed a couple other small problems, now added to the list above.

[beckybanbury]

@teixeirak I've edited some of the figures, but for some reason the appendix is knitting to html instead of pdf. Would you mind trying to knit and see if you have the same problem so I know whether its an issue with the code or with my laptop?

[teixeirak]

I'm getting the same problem. (No wonder my attempted changes yesterday didn't seem to have any affect on the .pdf!)

[beckybanbury]

fyi I've fixed this

[beckybanbury]

@teixeirak would you be able to review the updated appendix, and see if you think we need anything else? I think we pretty much have anything, but it would be good to get your opinion!

[teixeirak]

Sorry for the slow response on this! I’ll get to it ASAP.

[teixeirak]

Looks great from a first pass! Let's call it good for now but stay open to the possibility of adding if we find something missing.

[teixeirak]

The one remaining point here is now covered in issue #68.