Fig. 3: Overview of generalized changes in microbial community composition and functioning along the degradation sequence from intact (S0) to severely degraded (S5) stage. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Overview of generalized changes in microbial community composition and functioning along the degradation sequence from intact (S0) to severely degraded (S5) stage.

From: Microbial functional changes mark irreversible course of Tibetan grassland degradation

Fig. 3: Overview of generalized changes in microbial community composition and functioning along the degradation sequence from intact (S0) to severely degraded (S5) stage.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

Generalized changes in microbial community composition and enzyme activities (A). Simplified non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) plots derived from terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (t-RFLP) data for the bacterial (B) and fungal (C) communities. Shaded areas mark each degradation stage, symbols indicate soil depth, and arrows show most important driving factors (canonical correspondence analysis, p < 0.05). Individual variables underlying the processes described by the blue and red arrows are shown in Supplementary Fig. 6.

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