Fig. 3: Seasonal variation in airborne fungal diversity.
From: Airborne DNA reveals predictable spatial and seasonal dynamics of fungi
a–e, The lines representing species richness (a), DNA amount (b), community composition (c) and CWM of asexual (d) and sexual (e) spore size show the predictions of the best-supported linear mixed models (Methods) for tropical-subtropical (red), temperate (cyan) and polar-continental (purple) climatic zones. Note that the predictions are shown for the Northern Hemisphere whereas for the Southern Hemisphere the seasonal patterns would be mirror images. For community composition (c), seasonality for each site is defined as the difference in Jaccard index between samples taken in the same season versus those taken in different seasons (Methods). a,b,d,e, The dots representing the raw data have been slightly jittered to show overlap. The line in c shows that seasonality in community composition was higher at colder sites (linear regression, P = 0.04).
