Fig. 6: The log2 fold change in relative abundance between the disturbed and undisturbed communities during the last 2 weeks of the cultivation periods (week 3–4 and 6–7).

Only OTUs with a significance level lower than 0.05 are shown (FDR-adjusted DESeq2 p-values). Each point represents an OTU coloured by the class classification. OTUs were grouped according to the genus level. The lowest taxonomic classification obtained is indicated in parenthesis for OTUs that could not be classified at the genus level (p phylum, c class, o order, f family, g genus). OTUs with higher abundance during disturbance are in the blue shaded area, whereas those with higher abundance when the environment was undisturbed are in the orange shaded area.