Fig. 4: Impacts of an acute deoxygenation event on coral reef benthic and microbial community structure.
From: Rapid ecosystem-scale consequences of acute deoxygenation on a Caribbean coral reef
Conceptual figure depicting how the deoxygenation event shifted microbial and benthic community composition, and how the shift in the benthic assemblage persisted 1 year after the event. In contrast, no such changes were observed at the reference site. Abundance of microbial taxa depicted in the water is proportional to the profiles determined through shotgun metagenome sequencing (top, horizontal stacked bars). The amount of coral habitat is presented as the proportion of coral habitat that was either live (brown), bleached (gray), or dead (dark gray) at each time point based on field surveys (bottom, horizontal stacked bars). Dissolved oxygen concentrations ranged from ~0.2 mg l−1 (red) to ~6.5 mg l−1 (blue) in hypoxic and normoxic conditions, respectively. Figure created for this paper by Amanda Dillon, Aline Design LLC.
