Stellar mass function in different redshift bins. To account for the different effective areas of the surveys, the distributions are normalised between the mass limits of 3 × 10¹⁰ M_⊙, and 10¹² M_⊙. Dashed lines denote the double-Schechter fit (restricted to z ≤ 0.06) from Baldry et al. (2012). Coloured lines denote the resulting mass function from the different surveys that compose the sample. Black dashed-dotted illustrate the resulting mass function of the total sample.