Fig. 3: Fits of the neutral model for bacterial, fungal, and protistan communities in response to different plastic types exposure (CK, PE, and PBAT) (n = 56 for bacteria and fungi; n = 52 for protists. | Communications Biology

Fig. 3: Fits of the neutral model for bacterial, fungal, and protistan communities in response to different plastic types exposure (CK, PE, and PBAT) (n = 56 for bacteria and fungi; n = 52 for protists.

From: Biodegradable plastic exposure enhances microbial functional diversity while reducing taxonomic diversity across multi-kingdom soil microbiota in cherry tomato fields

Fig. 3

CK treatment had no plastisphere samples). Each point represents a microbial ASV, and different colors indicate ASVs that occur more or less frequently than predicted by the neutral model. The predicted occurrence frequency is shown as a solid blue line, and the dashed lines indicate the 95% confidence interval around the neutral model. The R2 indicates the fit to the neutral model.

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