Fig. 2: Change in Amazon rain forest soil fungal communities in response to precipitation seasonality and experimental drought. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 2: Change in Amazon rain forest soil fungal communities in response to precipitation seasonality and experimental drought.

From: Effects of natural and experimental drought on soil fungi and biogeochemistry in an Amazon rain forest

Fig. 2

Plots of non‐metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination based on non-rarefied presence/absence data of fungal communities in response to seasonality and 14 years of throughfall exclusion (~50%) in a tropical lowland rain forest in the Amazon basin. a Total fungi; stress 2D, 0.127; b saprotrophs; stress 2D, 0.163; c dark-septate fungi; stress 3D; 0.166; d pathogens; stress 3D, 0.162. Green, wet season; brown, dry season; filled circles, control; empty circles, treatment; DSF dark-septate fungi, Patho pathogens, SSapro soil saprotrophs, Wsapro wood saprotrophs, OM soil organic matter, FR fine roots, Mg magnesium, Glr ß-Glucuronidase, Gls ß-Glucosidase, Lac Laccase, NAG N-Acetylglucosaminidase, Pho Acid phosphatase. Ellipses denote 95% confidence intervals using standard error of the weighted average sample scores per treatment in the rainy and dry seasons.

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