Our first publication from the amazing spanish pond system set-up by Andy Green and his group, but especially with the hard work of Dagmar Frisch, who has the patience of a saint to keep collaborating with me: “Strong Spatial Influence on Colonization Rates in a Pioneer Zooplankton Metacommunity” in Plos One.
Each published article is unique in its calvary to publication. Most often, this is not visible to the reader, although sometimes you can tell that certain parts in the manuscript are clearly added on to satisfy a reviewer’s pet peeve. For this publication in particular, it rested on how to define “Inundation days”, the essential part of our measure of colonisation rate. After some back and forth with reviewers, we agreed on the following figure:
- available in the supplemental material
- shows both the age of the analyses in this manuscript and my inertia, since it still uses the Lattice package in R, instead of the now much more used ggplot2 package
