FIGURE 5.

(A) Relationship between the magnitude of “absolute” community functional redundancy and “absolute” bacterial metabolic plasticity. Each point represents the average plasticity and redundancy per treatment of transplant experiments in June and July 2006. Open circles and triangles refer to transplanted and control communities respectively. The black full and dashed lines represent the trend generated from a least regression model (p <0.050 for transplanted and control communities respectively. (B) Relationship between “relative” community functional redundancy and “relative” bacterial metabolic plasticity. Each point represents the average magnitude of plasticity and redundancy per treatment of transplant experiments in June and July 2006. Open circles, squares, diamonds, and triangles refer to M.L, L.M, R.L, and L.R treatments respectively. The black line represents the trend generated from a least regression model (p < 0.05).