Lunch time reading.

Temporal heterogeneity increases with spatial heterogeneity.

Scott Collins et al.

The slope here is less than 1 which means that temporal heterogeneity is always less than spatial heterogeneity.

This is true for both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

As predicted by Robin Snyder 10 years prior.

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.2154

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