Fig. 3: Multivariate metabolic profiles of freshwater benthic bacterial communities on tiles under ambient (A; green symbols), elevated nutrients (N; yellow symbols), elevated salinity (S; blue symbols) and combined elevated salinity and elevated nutrients (SN; purple symbols) treatments, 1 day (circles), 7 days (triangles) and 30 days (squares) after tiles with established microbial communities were deployed in the treated ponds. | npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Fig. 3: Multivariate metabolic profiles of freshwater benthic bacterial communities on tiles under ambient (A; green symbols), elevated nutrients (N; yellow symbols), elevated salinity (S; blue symbols) and combined elevated salinity and elevated nutrients (SN; purple symbols) treatments, 1 day (circles), 7 days (triangles) and 30 days (squares) after tiles with established microbial communities were deployed in the treated ponds.

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

Fig. 3

PCA ordination on Euclidean distances calculated on maximum slopes of OD590 values for each plate. PCA 1 explains 45% of variance and PCA 2 explains 11% of variance. Ellipses represent a confidence interval of 0.8.

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