Fig. 1: Distribution of microbial necromass carbon and plant detritus carbon in topsoil across alpine ecosystems.
From: Plant detritus carbon dominates over microbial necromass carbon in topsoil of alpine ecosystems
Microbial necromass carbon (MNC) and plant detritus carbon (PDC) distribution in forest, wetland, grassland, cropland and desert ecosystems in 0–30 cm soil depth (n = 102, 54, 63, 90 and 54, respectively). The horizontal black bold lines inside the boxplots represent the median, and the black whiskers represent the interquartile range from the first and third quartiles. Results from paired Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, P values for two-tailed tests.
