ngoj1
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6 months ago Hi Lizzie,
Here's a rough draft of the two figures: 2DFigure.pdf 3DFigure.pdf
The colours are just placeholders, but I think the viridis-esque colour looks pretty nice and I may use that for the 2D figure if you prefer it as well. For the 3D figure, is the heatmap meant to represent the pathogen/predator pressure? That's what I assumed when looking at the sketch, and in my head it makes sense that high seedling density caused by low dispersal distance and strong masting would promote the strongest predation due to seed abundance, and then low pressure when the seeds are more scattered away + fewer of them produced. For the question mark regions I've left them white for now.
lizzieinvancouver
@ngoj1 Okay, I could use help with two separate figures sketched out here (and uploaded as PDF to figures folder):
The basic point we're trying to show is that Janzen Connell (JC) and masting both make predictions for how seed density should affect pathogen/seed-predator pressure and thus seedling survival, but they differ totally in their predictions and what axes they focus on. JC is focused on space (specifically distance from the mother tree -- check out the wikipedia and see https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Janzen-Connell-hypothesis-of-seed-and-seedling-herbivory-PRC-population-recruitment_fig3_238668527 for a version of the usual figure people show to explain this) while masting is time (years since last mast seed year).
The figure figure (top) is just showing that the survival x seed density predictions vary. These are both vaguely non-linear with no exact underlying model, so we should just draw vaguely non-linear lines (also, it's not clear in masting what happens at low seed density times so perhaps dash half the line?) but it would be great if you can draw small simple pictures that capture each and we use those little images in the next figure. You can probably come up with good ideas for this using these, but I strongly suggest including some circle/cycle for masting (to represent time, I tried drawing 'mast year' then 'year + 1' and the 'year n' but not sure that works or there is space) and an arrow for JC (since time is well represented by an arrow).
The next figure is supposed to show three dimensions in 2D. I think of it as some sort of heat map, but see what you come up with. Basically, it tries to combine the time axis of masting with the space axis of JC -- there are TWO corners of the figure we know and the rest are sort of question marks. It would also be good to highlight here that each only looks at once axis, but I am not sure that will be easy (but that was my red and blue pen). See what you can come up with! I will aim to answer any queries but feel free to ping me on email if i am not responding here quickly.
Thank you!