Fig 1.
Species abundance distribution of the field community.
Species abundance distribution of all OTUs in the field community (black) displayed as log-transformed relative abundance vs. species rank in the community; OTUs that were matched to a bacterial isolate are marked in red.
Table 1.
Number of isolates from the respective cultivation medium, abundance and incubation time.
Fig 2.
Phylogenetic composition of the bacterial field and isolated communities.
Percentage of the classes Alpha-, Beta- and Gammaproteobacteria, Actinobacteria and Bacilli in the field community including all other 80 classes that were not isolated in this study as “Other” and the percentage of the 5 isolated classes only in the field community, as well as the percentages of the 5 classes in the set of isolated OTUs (n = 43).
Fig 3.
Species abundance distribution of bacterial classes.
Species abundance distributions of the OTUs in the field community belonging to the 5 different classes isolated in this study displayed as log-transformed relative abundance vs. species rank in the community; OTUs that were matched to a bacterial isolate are marked in colour.
Fig 4.
Time of first bacterial growth on the plates.
Density plot of number of bacterial isolates showing visible growth on the plate along incubation time; lines represent densities of the different phylogenetic classes.