Fig. 6: A general framework of redundancy-diversity divergence during succession.
From: Functional diversity of soil microbial communities increases with ecosystem development
Conceptual ternary plots showing (a) interrelated components of taxonomic and functional diversity and how these can be arranged conceptually to produce an axis of functional redundancy-functional specialization. Ternary plot (b) showing the placement of grassland and forest sites according to the diversity metrics shown in (a) of bacterial communities inferred from predicted metagenomes (n = 204). Corresponding ternary plots for P- and N-cycling can be found in the Supplementary Materials Fig. S8. See refs. 30,31 for a mathematical and conceptual elucidation of the interrelated diversity components shown in (a). Conceptual gradient (c) depicting the redundancy-specialization axis during succession after land abandonment. Data and code to reproduce this figure are available at: (https://zenodo.org/records/17176048).
