Fig. 2: Year-round microbial community structure and turnover. | ISME Communications

Fig. 2: Year-round microbial community structure and turnover.

From: The polar night shift: seasonal dynamics and drivers of Arctic Ocean microbiomes revealed by autonomous sampling

Fig. 2

a Relative sequence abundances (%) of eukaryotic, bacterial and archaeal taxa over the annual cycle. b, upper panel: Microbial community turnover (taxonomic similarities expressed as 1 minus Jenson-Shannon distance) compared to the first sampling event in relation to daylight hours (top color gradient). b, lower panel: Microbial alpha-diversity (inverse Simpson index). Eukaryotes: purple; bacteria and archaea: green. Lines indicate the seasonal boundaries defined by multivariate evaluation of physicochemical and microbial dynamics (Fig. 3).

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