Fig. 4

Comparison of snow-free and snow covered association networks. Points connected by dashed lines refer to network pairs, i.e. snow-free and snow covered networks inferred after applying different filtering criteria. A The number of nodes in the networks. B The number of edges = associations in the networks. C The density of the networks as the number of inferred associations relative to the number of possible associations. D, E The percentages of D fungal and E bacterial ASVs detected in both the snow-free and snow covered network of each network pair. F, G The percentage of associations detected also in the paired network: F all associations considered (fungal-fungal, fungal-bacterial, and bacterial-bacterial associations), G only fungal-bacterial (fb) associations considered. Boxes depict the first to third quartile, whiskers indicate the maximum value to the third quartile, the black line indicates the median