Fig. 5: Relationship between lab-identified traits and shifts in community composition with fire in the field.
Total relative abundance of all taxa with lab-identified fire-related traits in field data 1 yr (left) and 5 yr (right) post-fire vs mean Bray–Curtis dissimilarities between burned and all corresponding unburned field sites (matched by vegetation community, soil horizon and year). Lines indicate linear models (n = 49 field soil samples, P = 7 × 10−7, \({R}_{\rm{adj}}^{2}=0.37\)) with the following equations: 1 yr post-fire: y = −0.34 + 0.53x; 5 yr post-fire: y = −0.04 + 0.10x.
