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Fig. 5 | BMC Ecology

Fig. 5

From: A systematic survey of regional multi-taxon biodiversity: evaluating strategies and coverage

Fig. 5

Three dimensional NMDS plots for plants with a showing axis 2 against axis 1 and b showing axis 3 against axis 2 and fungi with c showing axis 2 against axis 1 and d showing axis 3 against axis 1. The three main gradients used for selecting the 130 sites (fertility, moisture, successional stage) are overlaid as arrows (from an envfit analyses in the R package Vegan). The ordinations are based on plant species lists from the 130 sites (a, b) or macrofungi species lists from the 124 sites with more than five species (c, d) and the arrows reflect soil moisture measured using a soil moisture meter, fertility measured as soil N and light measured as light intensity using HOBO loggers. The ordination plots illustrate that the community composition of vascular plants and macrofungi actually reflect the main gradients the sites were selected to cover. The scatter of dots shows the variation in abiotic conditions across the 130 sites. Correlations and p-values can be seen in Additional file 8: Appendix H

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