Figure 3: Relative abundances of key enzymes in grassland and forest. | Scientific Reports

Figure 3: Relative abundances of key enzymes in grassland and forest.

From: Driving forces of soil bacterial community structure, diversity, and function in temperate grasslands and forests

Figure 3

Key genes for nitrogen, sulfur, and methane metabolism, carbon fixation pathways, cellulose, xylan, lignin and polyaromatic-hydrocarbon (PAH) degradation, acid and alkaline phosphatases and urease were combined. Their mean abundance (relative to the mean in the complete dataset) in grasslands soil was plotted against the mean abundance in forest soils. Size and color of the circles indicate the mean abundance in the complete dataset. Low abundance: small blue circles; medium abundance: medium yellow circles; high abundance: large red circles. The enzymes included in the analysis are given in Supplementary Material Table S5.

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