FigureSI5_README.txt
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Date: 19 December 2019

Dataset creator and contact person:
Roeland C. van de Vijsel
roeland.van.de.vijsel[at]nioz.nl
NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (www.nioz.nl)
Yerseke, The Netherlands

This data belongs to the dataset that can be downloaded from the NIOZ Data Repository (https://dataverse.nioz.nl) and/or can be found as DOI: 10.25850/nioz/7b.b.m (https://doi.org/10.25850/nioz/7b.b.m). 

This dataset is part of the following publication:
van de Vijsel, R.C., van Belzen, J., Bouma, T.J., van der Wal, D., Cusseddu, V., Purkis, S.J., Rietkerk, M. & van de Koppel, J. (2019). Estuarine biofilm patterns: Modern analogues for Precambrian self-organization. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. DOI: 10.1002/esp.4783 (https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4783).

Whenever any of these data (scripts, figures, raw and processed data) are used elsewhere, please refer correctly to this publication and its authors and please cite the dataset. Options for citing the dataset can be found on https://dataverse.nioz.nl. Dataset and publication published under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Figure SI5 shows vegetation patterns (first Vaucheria algal mats, later colonised by plants) that are regularly spaced and persistent in time, on the tidal flats of Paardenschor (51.334521°N, 4.251750°E). 

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Input data for this Figure can be found in the subfolder “Paardenschor”:

PSYYYY.jpg
Pictures derived from Google Earth Pro, (c) 2016 Google Inc.

PaardenschorPatterns.pptx
In this document, 4 PSYYYY.jpg pictures are used. The same spatial area is cropped out of all these 4 images and a ruler is added for spatial dimensions.

PaardenschorPatterns.pdf
The composite image made in the Powerpoint file is saved as this .pdf-file. This file is used as Figure SI5.

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