Fig. 6: Methanotroph to methanogen ratio across seasons.
From: Linking transcriptional dynamics of CH4-cycling grassland soil microbiomes to seasonal gas fluxes
The ratio of methanotroph to methanogen SSU rRNA transcripts (A) and pMMO to methanogenesis mRNA transcripts (B). The ratio was calculated with mean transcript abundances of the upper (0–10 cm) and the deeper soil layer (20–30 cm) of one soil sample. of the grassland sites with low (LI, yellow) and high (HI, turquoise) land-use intensity taken in autumn (aut) 2017 and winter (win), spring (spr) and summer (sum) 2018. Statistically significant categories of the ratios between seasons were tested with an ANOVA and subsequent post-hoc Tukey’s test at p-adjusted < 0.05 level.
