Fig. 4: Relative changes in the number of growing taxa per phylum under drought and future drought conditions. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Relative changes in the number of growing taxa per phylum under drought and future drought conditions.

From: Microbial growth under drought is confined to distinct taxa and modified by potential future climate conditions

Fig. 4

a Relative change (0 = no change, 1 = increase by 100%) in the number of growing taxa per phylum comparing Ambient (reference) and Ambient + Drought conditions (n = 4 replicates). b Relative change in the number of growing taxa comparing Ambient + Drought (reference) and Future Climate + Drought conditions (n = 4 replicates). Points represent mean relative changes in the number of growing taxa per phylum including standard errors (error bars). Two-way ANOVA testing a full two factorial design (Drought Yes, Drought No, Climate Ambient, Climate Future) was performed on the number of growing amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) across all treatments for each phylum independently that fulfilled normality and homoscedasticity requirements. P-values were adjusted for multiple testing using false discovery rate correction. Bold colored points represent significant effects (a: Drought = p < 0.05, b: Climate = p < 0.05 or Drought x Climate = p < 0.05) and transparent points represent non-significant effects. Vertical lines depict the means of the respective reference treatment (n = 4 replicates) used to calculate relative changes. Source data and p-values are provided with this paper.

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