Fig. 6: Hypothetical traits-based fire ecology framework.
Panels indicate the relative importance of fire survival, fast growth, post-fire environment affinity and dispersal in structuring post-fire soil bacterial communities for high (top), mid (middle) and low (bottom) severity burns or soil depths. (Note that, while hypothesized fire survival, fast growth and post-fire environment-affinity trends are based directly on our observations in this study, our predictions for the importance of dispersing taxa are largely speculative.)
