Figure 5
From: A high biodiversity mitigates the impact of ocean acidification on hard-bottom ecosystems
Impact of acidification on unicellular fungi. Reported are microscopy images, illustrating examples of fungal structures colonizing the surface of the coralligenous assemblages tested in the present study. (a,b) fungal hyphae with septa and filamentous branching; (c) cluster of fungal spores; (d,e) sporangia with enlarged highlights showing details of the spores under epifluorescence or normal light microscopy (scale bars, 10 µm). The scatter plot (f) shows the relationships between biodiversity (as number of different families contained in the natural coralligenous assemblages tested) and the proliferation of fungi in acidified and non-acidified (control) mesocosms. Reported are average values and SDs.
