Figure 4
From: Litter chemistry explains contrasting feeding preferences of bacteria, fungi, and higher plants
Correlation profiles between the growth of different organisms (bacteria, fungi, annual plants, perennial plants, woody plants) over 36 different litter materials (i.e. fresh and decomposed leaves from 18 species) and 13C-CPMAS NMR spectral signals of the same materials. In each panel, vertical dashed lines refer to main classes of organic C. Horizontal gray lines indicate threshold values for significant correlation (p < 0.01 after controlling for multiple comparison according to Benjamini and Hochberg74). Data refer to Pearsons’ r, with mean (solid line) and 95% confidence interval (filled bands) calculated over a different number of target species within each organism type (in brackets). Significant r values are highlighted in dark gray.
