Figure 1
From: Exposure to airborne bacteria depends upon vertical stratification and vegetation complexity
Box/violin plots of Shannon alpha diversity scores for each habitat; bare ground, grassland, and scrub. Panel (a) shows inter-habitat bacterial alpha diversity for soil samples, and panel (b) shows inter-habitat bacterial alpha diversity for aerobiome samples. Plots also display mean and median values, interquartile range and kernel density estimation indicated by the shape of the violin (Shannon alpha diversity values for each habitat, divided into days and sites, are in Supplementary Materials, Appendix C, Table S1). We also tested for mean alpha diversity differences between dates and sites, showing that sampling dates and individual sites were generally not a factor in alpha diversity variation with nearly 90% of comparisons showing non-significant results (Appendix C, Table S2).
