Fig. 2: Concentration of groups of phototrophic organisms in benthic freshwater microbial communities on tiles under ambient (A; green bars), elevated nutrients (N; yellow bars), elevated salinity (S; blue bars) and combined elevated salinity and elevated nutrients (SN; purple bars) treatments 1, 7, 30 and 90 days after tiles with established microbial communities were deployed in the treated ponds (data are means ± SE, n = 4). | npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Fig. 2: Concentration of groups of phototrophic organisms in benthic freshwater microbial communities on tiles under ambient (A; green bars), elevated nutrients (N; yellow bars), elevated salinity (S; blue bars) and combined elevated salinity and elevated nutrients (SN; purple bars) treatments 1, 7, 30 and 90 days after tiles with established microbial communities were deployed in the treated ponds (data are means ± SE, n = 4).

From: Multiple stressors affect function rather than taxonomic structure of freshwater microbial communities

Fig. 2

A Concentration of green algae. B Concentration of diatoms. C Concentration of cyanobacteria. * = pairwise contrast between treatments p <0.05, ** = pairwise contrast p <0.01.

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