Fig. 4: Metabolic rates of freshwater benthic bacterial communities across 31 carbon sources 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 and 30 days after tiles with established microbial communities were deployed in the treated ponds (data are means ± SE, n = 4). | npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Fig. 4: Metabolic rates of freshwater benthic bacterial communities across 31 carbon sources 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 and 30 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. 4

A Maximum slope of OD590 values across all carbon sources; B mean slope of OD590 values across all carbon sources. Letters indicate significant pairwise comparisons (alpha = 0.05) within Day groups.

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