Fig. 5: Environmental drivers of community structure. | ISME Communications

Fig. 5: Environmental drivers of community structure.

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

Fig. 5

Partial Least Square regression between environmental parameters and the abundance of microbial families, identifying seasonal groupings in the WSC (a) compared to both seasonal and polar/Atlantic-influenced groupings in the EGC (b). Only correlation coefficients > 0.5 were considered. Temp: water temperature; O2 conc: oxygen concentration; O2 sat: oxygen saturation; PW: proportion of Polar Water; ice cover: percent ice cover on a given sampling event; past ice: percent ice cover integrated over the time between sampling events; CO2: partial CO2 pressure.

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