Fig. 3

The noise-type profile distinguishes between temporally structured and unstructured community time series. a Noise types. b Noise types (100 time points). The bar plots depict for each community time series the percentage of species with white, pink, brown, or black noise. White noise indicates the absence of structure, all other noise types its presence. Labels for time series are colored according to the level of non-zero intrinsic noise (sigma) for Ricker, according to the death rate if larger than one for Hubbell, according to the interval if larger than one (with interval coloring taking precedence over sigma) and black otherwise time series for the full-length time series (a) as well as for shortened time series consisting of the first 100 time points (b)