Spatial and temporal scales of coral reef fish ecological research and management: a systematic map protocol

Table 3 Definitions of spatial scale and temporal scale terminology to be used in this study (adapted from Estes et al. [6])

SPATIAL scale terminology	Definition	TEMPORAL scale terminology	Definition
Sampling resolution	Area of an individual spatial replicate. The finest scale at which a complete measurement of every unit of the quantity of interest is recorded	Sampling duration	How long it took to make one observation of the phenomenon in question, at a given point in space
Sampling resolution		Observational interval	The time that elapsed between repeated observations of the same point in space or individual organism
Actual extent	The summed area of all spatial replicates (calculated by multiplying the sampling resolution by the number of spatial replicates)	Actual duration	Summed observational time of all temporal replicates (calculated by multiplying the sampling duration by the number of repeat observations)
Total extent	The total area enclosed within a perimeter defined by the outermost spatial replicates	Total duration	The total period of time over which the phenomenon of interest was observed (between the first and last temporal replicate)

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