Fig. 1: Community functional and taxonomic diversity.
From: Drought and plant litter chemistry alter microbial gene expression and metabolite production
Two dimensional NMDS ordination of (a) transcripts (function) and (b) metabolites. α diversity of (c) functions and (d) taxa derived from transcripts across vegetation and long-term precipitation treatments; n = 9–12. Community fungal:bacterial (F:B) ratio (e) estimated as the ratio of mRNA sequences assigned to fungi and bacteria; n = 9–12. a, b Asterisks mark the significance of treatments that cause clustering of similar samples based on Bray–Curtis dissimilarity index analysed using permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA), and (c–e) asterisks mark the significance of differences between groups as analysed by Tukey’s multiple comparison test (***p < 0.001; **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05). Sampling time did not significantly influence any parameter.
