Fig. 3: Fungal community robustness to the loss of plant partners (mean and 95% confidence intervals). | Communications Biology

Fig. 3: Fungal community robustness to the loss of plant partners (mean and 95% confidence intervals).

From: Phylogenetic rewiring in mycorrhizal–plant interaction networks increases community stability in naturally fragmented landscapes

Fig. 3

Robustness represents the fraction of host species that need to be removed to result in the loss of >50% of the fungal OTUs in a community. A specific fungal OTU is extinct when all its hosts have been removed. Fungal OTUs and its host plant species are defined based on the fungal DNA extracted of the roots of each plant individual. The robustness was estimated under three scenarios: without allowing rewiring (noRW), allowing random rewiring without any constraint (RWrand), and allowing phylogenetically constrained rewiring (RWphylo) within plants of the same family as the original fungal partner. One hundred simulations (n = 100) of the three scenarios in each of the 15 fragments are presented ordered by increasing robustness of their networks under the noRW scenario.

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