Figure 5
From: Spatial scales of bacterial community diversity at cold seeps (Eastern Mediterranean Sea)
Non-metric multidimensional scaling analysis plots (based on Bray–Curtis dissimilarity) depicting differences in the bacterial community structure between different seep regions, as calculated from depth-pooled ARISA (a) and 454 MPTS (b), as well as depth-unpooled ARISA data (c). Seep sites are colored according to the seep region: Amsterdam MV sites in red, Amon MV sites in black, and Pockmark sites in green. Different sites within the same seep region are depicted with different symbols. Convex hulls in (c) depict significant differences between the groups, as determined by analysis of similarity (R=0.3–0.6, Bonferroni’s P⩽0.003).
