Particularly notable are consistent intensification of agricultural and, afforestation activities in the inner sectors of the dunes and a widespread urbanization.
The thickness in the inner sectors was significantly thicker than in the outer sectors.
Within the inner sectors, the nasal choroidal thickness (270.1 um) was thicker than the inferior (263.3 um), temporal (267.0 um), and superior (263.3 um) quadrants.
In the inner sectors, the retina was thickest in the inner superior (309.7 um) and was significantly thicker than the other three sectors (P < 0.0001).
The thicknesses of retina and GCC/GCIPL in the inner sectors were significantly higher than in the outer sectors of the EDTRS area, while in the same region of the macula, the choroid exhibited completely different patterns of topographic variation.
In the latter, coral framestone occupied the inner sector (reef flat), while the facies association dominated by boundstone with Ellipsactinia sp. developed in the outer sectors (reef wall), adjacent to the fore-reef and upper slope environments.
Within the sectors of GB an increasing gradient in mollusc diversity and occurrence was observed, ranging from the azoic and impoverished stations in the inner sector to a well-structured community in terms of species composition and abundance inhabiting the outer sector.
We attempted to evaluate quantitatively the number of cells exiting the inner sector S1 in comparison to the number of radial intercalations (supplementary material Fig. S6).
The inner sector S1 has higher up- and downward intercalation rates, with the downward intercalations nearly as strong as the lateral intercalations (Fig. 5E,F).
The grid was subdivided in nine independent sectors: a central sector (C) within 500 ?m from the fovea, four inner sectors within 500 to 1,500 ?m from the fovea (iSUP, iTEM, iINF, iNAS), and four outer sectors within 1,500 to 3,000 ?m from the fovea (oSUP, oTEM, oINF, oNAS).
The mean thickness of each sector was automatically measured within 500 ?m from the center of the fovea in the central sector; 500 to 1,500 ?m from the center of the fovea in four juxtafoveal or inner sectors (superior, inferior, nasal, and temporal), and 1,500 to 3,000 ?m from the center of the fovea in four extrafoveal or outer sectors (superior, inferior, temporal, and nasal).
