Extended Data Fig. 5: Seasonal variation in airborne fungal diversity of different trophic guilds, with data contaminated with sequences counts observed in negative controls.

The lines in the panels show the predictions of the best-supported linear mixed models (see 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. The response variable in each panel is the species richness of the trophic guild shown in the panel’s titles. The dots in that show the raw data have been slightly jiggered to reveal overlap. For comparison with the original data, see Extended Data Fig. 5. The results are shown for one of the ten replicates of the contaminated datasets.