Fig. 1
From: Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks
Bacterial and fungal community response to drought. The duration of the drought is indicated as a shaded area in b–d and f–h. NMDS of bacterial (a) and fungal (e) community composition shows that drought significantly affected bacterial and fungal communities at all sampling dates following drought (ADONIS). Bacterial (b, c) and fungal (f, g) richness and evenness were strongly affected by drought, but this response differed over time (Repeated measures ANOVA sampling × Drought interaction F3,153 = 10.4, P < 0.001 and F3,195 = 14.8, P < 0.001 for richness of bacteria and fungi, respectively; Sampling × Drought interaction F3,153 = 23.1, P < 0.001 and F3,195 = 23.1, P < 0.001 for evenness of bacteria and fungi, respectively). The similarity between drought and control communities changed over time for both bacteria and fungi, but bacterial drought and control communities were still less similar than before drought at late recovery (ANOVA sampling effect F3,80 = 40.9, P < 0.001 and F3,103 = 2.8, P = 0.04 for bacteria and fungi, respectively). In b–d and f–h, dots represent individual observations and lines indicate means ± 1 SE. In d, h, symbols with the same letter are not statistically different
