Fig 1.
Study sites and the conservation status of the sampled plots.
In each location red (conserved), green (degraded) and blue (restored) points show the conservation status, light blue layer shows water bodies (INEGI, 2010 [40]) and light green layer shows mangrove coverage (CONABIO, 2021 [41]). The vectorial data of Mexico administrative boundaries are from the following source: https://www.geoboundaries.org. The vectorial data of Yucatan hydrography are from the following source: INEGI, 2010 [40]. The vectorial data of Yucatan’s mangrove coverage are from the following source: CONABIO [41]. The pipeline to construct the map with R libraries: ggplot2, ggspatial, sf and ggpubr is available in Github (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11269158). The terms of use of vectorial information can be consulted in https://www.geoboundaries.org/index.html#usage, https://en.www.inegi.org.mx/inegi/terminos.html and http://geoportal.conabio.gob.mx/metadatos/doc/html/mx_man20gw.html respectively [42].
Table 1.
Description of the sampling sites.
Table 2.
Sampling sites, dominant mangrove species in each conservation status and average physicochemical parameters in interstitial water and sediment.
Fig 2.
Microbial genetic diversity (inverted Simpson index) in sediments along the northern coast of Yucatan.
Fig 3.
The most abundant microbial orders found along the northern coast of Yucatan. Taxa within the “Other” category have abundances lower than 0.5%.
Fig 4.
Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA).
Dispersion of sediment microbial composition along the northern Yucatan coast. Distances were measured with Weighted UniFrac metrics. Ellipses account for 85% of the samples within each group. Mangrove conservation status (colors) and study sites (shapes).
Fig 5.
Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA).
Ordination from weighted UniFrac distances. Conservation status: red circles (conserved), green triangles (degraded), blue squares (restored). Vectors correspond to physicochemical variables: temperature (T°), salinity (Sal), organic carbon (OC), Redox potential and pH.
Fig 6.
ASVs (including all sites) that show significant differences in their abundance (between degraded and conserved mangroves).
Orders (vertical axis) and corresponding phyla (colors) along the northern YP coast are shown. Positive values show more abundant ASVs in degraded samples, while negative values show less abundant ASVs in degraded samples.
Fig 7.
ASVs (including all sites) that show significant differences in their abundance (between degraded and restored mangroves).
Orders (vertical axis) and corresponding phyla (colors) along the northern YP are shown. Positive values show more abundant ASVs in degraded samples, while negative values show less abundant ASVs in degraded samples.