Figure 3
From: Microbial community shifts induced by plastic and zinc as substitutes of tire abrasion
Ternary plot showing the functional community composition and its shift. Treatments are color-coded and sampling points are shape coded. Consumers include parasitic and fungal OTUs. Ternary plots are three dimensional composition plots. Relative abundances of samples always sum up to 100%. The closer a sample is located towards one corner (nutrition type), the more organisms affiliated with this nutritional type are represented in the community in terms of relative abundance. Samples close to each other are similar in their functional community composition. Distances are based on the relative abundance of the three functional groups, thus distances between samples behave linear.
