Fig. 4: The relation between β and γ diversity. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: The relation between β and γ diversity.

From: Local community assembly mechanisms shape soil bacterial β diversity patterns along a latitudinal gradient

Fig. 4

a The expected algebraic relation between β and γ diversity produced by a simple sampling simulation, using a lognormal species abundance distribution. Curves represent β diversity values and ‘n’ represents the number of individuals in each plot. See Supplementary Fig. 4 for simulations showing similar relations for samples generated from uniform abundance distributions. b The observed relation between β and γ diversity in empirical data from soil bacterial communities along the latitudinal gradient. The P-values by two-sided spearman correlation are indicated in Fig. 4b. The source data are provided as a Source data file.

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