Fig. 3: Diversity of soil fungal communities in a lowland rain forest with respect to precipitation seasonality and in response to experimental drought. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 3: Diversity of soil fungal communities in a lowland rain forest with respect to precipitation seasonality and in response to experimental drought.

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

Fig. 3

Changes in total species richness and Shannon index of soil fungal communities in response to seasonality and 14 years of throughfall exclusion (~50%) in a tropical lowland rain forest in Amazonia. Green, wet season; brown, dry season; boxplots—filled, control; empty, treatment. Total richness (number of OTUs), upper left corner of panel; total number of OTUs in each treatment/season inside plotted boxes. Significant differences as determined by paired t-tests or Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, corrected for multiple comparisons using the false discovery rate method are indicated by grey arrows; +p < 0.08 (marginally non-significant); *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001. Boxplots: centre line, median; empty square, mean value; box limits, 25th and 75th percentiles; whiskers, 1.5 times interquartile range; empty circles, outliers.

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