Fig. 3: Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS) of the bacterial and archaeal community. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 3: Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS) of the bacterial and archaeal community.

From: Seismic events as potential drivers of the microbial community structure and evolution in a paleo-ocean analog

Fig. 3

NMDS were calculated based on normalized OTU tables. Samples were colored by sampling campaign as in Fig. 2 and size of the dots is related to the sampling depth. Correlation coefficients between each environmental variable and the NMDS scores are presented as blue vectors from the origin. Lengths of the vectors are scaled to the correlation coefficients. Time represents the number of months between each sampling time and the day of the major earthquake (May 18, 2018). NMDS of the bacterial large fraction (>3 µm) and archaeal small fraction (3–0.2 µm) were uninformative (Stress >0.15) due to the overrepresentation of Limnospira fusiformis and Woesearchaeota in the respective datasets and are therefore not presented but are available in Supplementary Fig. 2. Compositional data analyses (PCA plots based on centered logratio (CLR) OTU tables) are also presented in Supplementary Fig. 3.

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