Figure 7
From: A minimal model for microbial biodiversity can reproduce experimentally observed ecological patterns
Correlations between inter-site nutrient variation and metabolic structure affect distinguishability of body sites. Left: Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) of MetaHIT OTU-level community compositions, using the Jensen-Shannon distance metric. Data points are colored by the body site from which the sample was taken. Reproduced with permission from Figure 1 of Ref. 30. Right: Jensen-Shannon PCoA of species-level compositions of the simulated communities. In the first set of simulations (left), the nutrients supplied to different body sites come from different resource classes. This is the same set of simulations used for the left-hand panel of Fig. 6, but similar results are obtained if the simulations of the other panel are used instead, or if consumption preferences are uniformly random with no taxonomic structure (See Supplementary Fig. S2). In the second set of simulations (right), each environment is supplied with a randomly chosen set of resource types, with each site being supplied with about one third of the 300 possible resources. See main text and Methods for simulation details.
