Fig. 2: Results of empirical SLOSS comparisons (colors) performed in each of 100 resampled communities generated for the 76 metacommunities assessed in this study (bars). Colors represent the three possible outcomes of SLOSS, i.e., species richness higher in sets of large patches (SL > SS in blue; 19.9% of comparisons), species richness higher in sets of small patches (SS > SL in red; 45.2% of comparisons), or no clear difference in species richness between sets of small patches and sets of large patches (SS = SL in grey; 34.7% of comparisons).