Figure 6
From: Distinct gut microbiomes in two polar bear subpopulations inhabiting different sea ice ecoregions
Non-metric multi-dimensional scaling (NMDS) plots showing gut bacterial communities for East Greenland (EG) and Southern Beaufort Sea (SB) polar bear subpopulations with color denoting subpopulation affiliation and shapes denoting Sex/Age Classes (adult females [AF], adult males [AM] and subadults [S] compared to cubs [C]) determined using (A) Bray–Curtis (Stress = 0.26; PERMANOVA: R2 = 0.06, p = 0.001; PERMDISP: p = 0.5) and (B) weighted UniFrac distances (Stress = 0.16; PERMANOVA: R2 = 0.06, p = 0.001; PERMDISP: p = 0.5) calculated at amplicon sequence variant (ASV)-level. Points represent individual fecal samples.
