Fig. 5: Path analysis of environmental and microbial drivers shaping community stability and metabolic potential. | npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Fig. 5: Path analysis of environmental and microbial drivers shaping community stability and metabolic potential.

From: Coastal rest during the COVID-19 pandemic enhances microbial community stability and metabolic potential in a subterranean estuary

Fig. 5

The partial least squares path model (PLS-PM) reveals direct/indirect effects of physical-chemical factors, bacterial richnessersity/composition, andcore species relative abundance on community stability (A), with standardized effect magnitudes shown in bar charts (B). Modelvalidity was assessed via goodness-of-fit (GOF), where solid/dashed arrows indicate positive/negative relationships, respectively(arrow width reflects path coefficient strength; latent variable values show determination coefficients). Significance thresholds: *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) quantifies the relationships between: C/N ratio and core species relative abundance (C), core species abundance and community stability (D), and community stability and metabolic potential (Metabolism) (E).

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