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Table 6
Comparison of our results with previous studies (see Sect. 4.4 for details).
| Birth events | Previous studies | Present study | Present study | |
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| Appearance | 12% (Lamb et al. 2008) | 12% | 19.1% | |
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| Fragmentation | 76% (Lamb et al. 2008) | 44.5% splitting | 41.8% splitting | |
| (splitting or merging) | 41.5% merging | 36.5% merging | ||
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| Emergence | 1% (Lamb et al. 2008) | 1% | 2% | |
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| Death events | Previous studies | Present study | Present study | |
| (instantaneous flux) | (maximum flux) | |||
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| Disappearance | 83% (Lamb et al. 2013) | 86% | 85% | |
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| Cancellation | 12% (Lamb et al. 2013) | 14% | 15% | |
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