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Fig. 6 | Environmental Microbiome

Fig. 6

From: Land use modification causes slow, but predictable, change in soil microbial community composition and functional potential

Fig. 6

A Boxplots display the relative abundance of the level 3 KEGG pathway categories, within the level 3 category metabolism, which significantly differed in relative abundance between the long-term exotic forest and grassland sites (Mann–Whitney’s U P < 0.05). The categories are split by whether they relate to biosynthesis, degradation or metabolism. The metabolism category is split by relative abundance with categories with > 0.01 displayed in the box on the right. The boxes represent the interquartile range (IQR: 25–75% of the data), the horizontal line indicates the median, while the whiskers extend to 1.5 times the IQR. Mean relative abundance of level 4 B nitrogen and C methane cycling genes and D aromatic compound, lysine and geraniol degraders that significantly differed (Mann Whitney’s U P < 0.05) in relative abundance between the long-term grassland sites and the long-term exotic forest sites. Error bars represent the standard error

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