Figure 2: Taxon richness and community similarity in relation to ecology and space. | Nature Communications

Figure 2: Taxon richness and community similarity in relation to ecology and space.

From: Second-generation environmental sequencing unmasks marine metazoan biodiversity

Figure 2

(a) Number of different OCTUs per sample for each phylum after data standardization derived from the Prestwick (eight sampling sites) and Littlehampton (one sampling site) marine littoral benthos; (b) grain size represents the relative 50% cumulative median grain size (μm) per site, and cluster analyses (UPGMA) using Sorensen's Coefficient represent the number of shared OCTUs between the nine independent samples. The positive relationship between grain size and sample richness is highly significant (Spearman's correlation coefficient, n=9, ρ=−0.83, P=0.0108).

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