Figure 4

Heatmap presentation of relative abundance of representative families of observed OTUs. Treatments (columns) and families (rows) are clustered using Bray–Curtis dissimilarity test and Ward linkage. Normalized relative abundance are plotted from low (red), mid (peach), and high (blue). Heatmap clustering was generated in MetaCOMET24 utilizing the InCHlib application28. CON (no buffer added); BC0.3% (0.3% buffer); BC0.5% (0.5% buffer); BC0.9% (0.9% buffer); asterisk (*): represents significant differences (P < 0.05).