Fig. 2: Number of extinctions, evenness and total population size over time.
From: Artificial selection improves pollutant degradation by bacterial communities
A Number of extinctions per round (solid lines) and cumulative (dashed lines) in the 10 plated communities of the selection and random treatments. B-C Mean (lines) ± SD (shaded areas) values of the 10 plated communities at each round where (B) shows evenness (the effective species number divided by its theoretical maximum value) and (C) total population size in CFU/ml. D-E Degradation percent plotted against (D) evenness and (E) total population size with the selection treatment in triangles and the random treatment in circles, and color representing selection rounds. Population size, growth or evenness could only be calculated for the 10 communities per treatment that we plated at each round (see Methods).
