Figure 1.
A comparison of total numbers of micro- and meio-faunal species between tropical (La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica (LS)) and temperate (Olympic National Forest in WA, U.S.A. (OF)) rainforests from the 5′-end of the SSU diagnostic region.
Figure 2.
Average number of reads per species within Soil, Litter, and Canopy habitats.
A) tropical rainforest at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica (LS), B) temperate rainforest at the Olympic National Forest in WA, U.S.A. (OF). Species are grouped into 6 trophic guilds: bacterial feeders (BF), fungal feeders (FF), root associates(RA), plant parasites (PP), omnivores (OM), and predators (PR) and reads are sorted from their highest to lowest numbers by the litter habitat within each trophic guild.
Figure 3.
An overall (across all habitats) taxonomic richness of La Selva (left panel) and Olympic Forest (right panel) at different levels of taxonomic resolution.
A) species, B) genus, and C) family. At each level of taxonomic resolution taxa were grouped by their feeding habit. BF = bacterial feeders, FF = fungal feeders, RA = root associates, PP = plant parasites, OM = omnivores, PR = predators, AP = animal parasites, AL = algivores.
Table 1.
Relative abundance of shared taxa at the genus and family levels of taxonomic resolution.
Figure 4.
Average number of reads per species within Soil, Litter, and Canopy habitats in the temperate rainforest at the Olympic National Forest in WA, U.S.A. generated from the use of the 5′-end diagnostic locus.
For a comparison to the results from the use of 3′-end see Figure 2B. Species are grouped into trophic guilds: bacterial feeders (BF), fungal feeders (FF), plant parasites (PP), omnivores (OM) and reads are sorted from their highest to lowest numbers by the litter habitat within each trophic guild.
Figure 5.
A nematode community composition at the trophic guild level depending on the choice of the diagnostic locus (5′-end or 3′-end of the SSU rDNA).