Fig. 2.

Scatter plot of sampled area vs. PPE density from 36 sites along the coast of Peru. The Blue region indicates the suggested range of covered area (from 25,000 to 50,000 m²) to avoid bias. Spearman correlation: p ≤ 0.0001, r = −0.6698. The data was obtained from (De-la-Torre et al., 2022). (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)