Fig. 2: Dot plot to identify how scale impacts active colonizers.

Data are Bray–Curtis dissimilarities of replicates within-site, across-sites (between transects within a location) and across locations (between locations within a transect). Lower on the y-axis means greater similarity. Data are mean ± standard deviation. Samples from the CCC organically managed agricultural field were included in within-site and across-location comparisons, but not across-site as only one microbial trap (i.e. one transect) was deployed as a reference plot.