Figure 7
Correlations between the relative abundance of the twenty most abundant bacterial genera (i.e., bacterial genera with the highest mean relative abundance across all samples) and of the Neocallimastigomycota phylum (X-axis) and the richness of various components of the diet (i.e., number of ASVs assigned to lichens belonging to Crustose, Epiphytic Foliose, Epiphytic Fruticose, Foliose, and Fruticose growth forms; number of ASVs assigned to Herbaceous, Non-vascular, or Lignified plants) and of parasites (total number of ASVs assigned to parasites; number of ASVs assigned to the Blastocystis, Entamoeba and Parelaphostrongylus genera) (Y-axis) from caribou fecal DNA. Red and blue colors are used to indicate the correlation coefficient only if the correlation is significant.
