Fig. 4: Relationships among activities of plants, soil microbes, and soil fauna.
From: Experimental warming causes mismatches in alpine plant-microbe-fauna phenology
Correlations (R2) between plant growth activity and soil microbial respiration activity (a), between plant growth activity and soil fauna feeding activity (b), between soil microbial respiration activity and soil fauna feeding activity (c). The presented statistics are conditional R squares (cR2), marginal R squares (mR2), F-values, and p values from linear mixed effects models. The statistical tests are two-sided, and significant effects are indicated by *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01. Points represent biologically independent samples (total points, n = 48; blue points for ambient climate, n = 24; red points for warming climate, n = 24). Lines and error bands depict the best-fit trendline and the 95% confidence interval of the linear regression, respectively. Blue lines represent ambient climate, red lines represent warming climate, and gray lines are for all data points together.
