Ecosystem engineers drive differing microbial community composition in intertidal estuarine sediments
Fig 4
Principal coordinate analysis of the beta diversity of bacterial community assemblages of all treatments at all depths (A) and the surface only (B) with overlaid vectors of biochemical gradients (A) and sediment function (B).
Ordination after standardisation of ASVs and a weighted Unifrac distance matrix. Redox potential and dissolved oxygen are overlaid as vectors for all sediment samples (A), and sediment characteristics are overlaid as vectors for sediment surface samples (B). C. v.–C. volutator; H. d.–H. diversicolor; Mixed–Mixed infauna; MPB–Microphytobenthos only; Man. Turb.–Manual-turbation.