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From: Long term repeated fire disturbance alters soil bacterial diversity but not the abundance in an Australian wet sclerophyll forest

Figure 2

Non-metric multidimensional scaling plot of soil bacterial community structure in three fire treatments and at two depths using OTU-based Bray-Curtis dissimilarities distance with soil chemical properties.

B0, B2 and B4 represent the 0–10 cm samples from the treatments of no burning, burning every two years and burning every four years, respectively, while sB0s, sB2 and sB4 represent the 10–20 cm samples. Only soil chemical properties with P values less than 0.5 are plotted and the arrow length is proportional to the strength of correlation. Stress value is also indicated in the figure. For abbreviations for soil chemical properties refer to Table 1. The R2 value for stress test is 0.976 (non-metric fit) and 0.875 (linear fit).

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