Fig. 8
From: Microbial community coalescence and nitrogen cycling in simulated mortality decomposition hotspots
Principal coordinate analyses (PCoA) of Bray–Curtis distances of bacterial communities from A all samples; and B treatments 2–4. Colors indicate treatment: pink: carcass-derived (1); blue: soil-derived (2); purple: mixed (3); orange: inorganic nutrients (4). Shapes indicate temperature: 10 °C inverted triangle, 20 °C square, 30 °C triangle. Day 11 samples are represented by open symbols and day 39 are closed symbols. Starting soil samples (1SS) are gray stars and decomposition fluid (1CC) from the carcass is represented by gray symbols. B PCoA of Treatments 2, 3 and 4 only. Sample names include the day (11 or 39), treatment (1–4), and temperature (10, 20, or 30 °C)