Fig. 4

Earthworm communities visualised in a multidimensional scaling plot in a Experiment 1 and b Experiment 2. Each sampling run is shown as number (see Table 2); Dung pat treatment (DP) observations are shown as dot symbols and no-dung pat treatment (NDP) observations are cross symbols. The trends as indicated by the arrow are pictured in (1) red line ellipse, (2) dotted blue arrow and (3) black long dash dot line (or ellipse)