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Fig. 3 | Environmental Microbiome

Fig. 3

From: Testing the stress gradient hypothesis in soil bacterial communities associated with vegetation belts in the Andean Atacama Desert

Fig. 3

Common and plant-specific OTUs at the BS and the RSS compartments and their taxonomic composition. a In the Sungear polygons, the RSS and the BS compartments are organized in vertices of a polygon, which contains circles of different sizes that represent intersections and relative abundances of OTUs from each compartment. Dark colored circles represent plant-specific OTUs. Light color circles, in the center of the Sungear chart, represent OTUs from the 21 samples of the BS compartments. Black circles represent OTUs common to BS and RSS compartments. b The bars under each Sungear polygon show the taxonomic composition and the number of plant-specific OTUs of each plant in the three different vegetation belts (dark colors in a). The bar inside the dashed box shows the taxonomic composition of the nonredundant core of taxa identified in the 21 samples of BS compartments (light colors in a). The full names of the plant acronyms can be found in Additional file 7: Table S1

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Environmental Microbiome

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