Ecosystem engineers drive differing microbial community composition in intertidal estuarine sediments
Fig 2
Principal coordinate analysis of the beta diversity of diatom assemblages of mesocosm sediments at the sediment surface.
Ordination after standardisation of species counts and a Bray-Curtis similarity matrix. Sediment characteristics are overlaid as vectors. C. v.–C. volutator; H. d.–H. diversicolor; Mixed–Mixed infauna; MPB–Microphytobenthos only; Man. Turb.–Manual-turbation.