Comprehensive Meta-analysis of Ontology Annotated 16S rRNA Profiles Identifies Beta Diversity Clusters of Environmental Bacterial Communities
Fig 3
Alpha diversity box plots for different ecosystems.
Based on our dataset, we observe that soil, marine and plant-associated environments in general host more diverse communities. Thanks to the applied sub-categorization, we can further break down ecosystems to inspect diversity in different soil types (shown in supplementary S1 Fig). We calculate Phylogenetic Distance Alpha diversity from samples rarefied to 1140 sequences.