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Fig. 7

From: Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks

Fig. 7

Relationship between network properties and correlation with D. glomerata biomass at the late recovery sampling time point. Symbol size indicates the strength of the correlation of that node with D. glomerata abundance; blue and red symbols indicate significant positive and negative correlations with D. glomerata, respectively, while grey symbols represent non-significant correlations. All networks had a positive correlation between node-normalised degree and betweenness (ad), but only in bacterial drought networks, there was a strong positive relationship between both normalised degree and betweenness and the strength of node correlation with D. glomerata abundance (ANCOVA normalised degree × Drought interaction F1,1676 = 25.9, P < 0.001 and Betweenness × Drought interaction F1,1676 = 14.5, P < 0.001 for bacteria (b); and Normalised degree F1,225 = 1.1, P = 0.742, Normalised degree × Drought F1,225 = 1.2, P = 0.275, Betweenness F1,225 = 0.08, P = 0.772, Betweenness × Drought F1,225 = 0.678, P = 0.411 for fungi (d))

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