Fig. 3: NMDS showing that samples grouped by collection date rather than geographic location within Galveston Bay.

NMDS from the complete gene pool (A) and the MAGs (B), with stress in both plots of type 1, with 2 dimensions, (A) had a stress value of 0.067 and (B) of 0.056. Dissimilarity indices were assessed via the rankindex function in vegan the euclidean index was used in (A) while the gower index was used in (B). Significant environmental conditions (α < 0.10) are shown as vectors the lengths of which have been halved in order to better visualize the groupings. Significant vectors with an α < 0.05 are denoted with *.