Figure 2: Species–area relationships, turnover and relationships with woody plant species richness for selected taxa of fungi and bacteria.
From: Multitrophic diversity in a biodiverse forest is highly nonlinear across spatial scales
The taxa shown reflect the variation in spatial turnover patterns exhibited by the 12 fungal (top) and 19 bacterial (bottom) taxa analysed. Shaded areas in the species–area curves show 95% confidence bands, percentage values are fractions of the total estimated species richness in 1 and 10 ha of forest. Stacked barplots show the average number of species per study plot (αPlot; n=27) and the relative species turnover (β) at scales of 0.5, 1, 10 ha, and the whole reserve (±95% confidence intervals). Insets below the curves show species-richness relationships between woody plants and microorganisms, based on the species–area models. Shaded areas in the inset show the deviation between the estimated nonlinear relationships across the whole reserve and a linear relationship based on the species richness data of ≤1 ha.
