Distribution of properties for GAMA galaxies in the main galaxy sample. In the different panels, we display the galaxy number counts (top left), redshift distribution (top right), absolute magnitude in the r band vs. redshift (bottom left), and the galaxy stellar mass distribution (bottom right). The dashed lines in the bottom left panel show different apparent magnitude limits: 19.7 (black, main catalogue limit) and 18.7, 17.7, and 16.7 (red, orange, and violet). The vertical lines (top right and bottom left panels) represent the redshift limits to define the volume-limited samples used in Sects. 4.4 and 4.5.