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. 2016 Jan 11;6:19054. doi: 10.1038/srep19054

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Bacterial diversity is shown as the ln of OTU richness (S) from 20 to 200 m depth from 51 °S to 47 °N for the three size fractions of the marine plankton: FL (free living bacteria, 3–0.22 μm filtrate) (a), SPA (small particle associated bacteria, 8–3 μm filtrate) (b) and LPA (large particle associated bacteria, >8 μm filtrate) (c). Panel (d) shows the water temperature and (e) the salinity. The five sections were generated with the free software Ocean Data View (Schlitzer, R., Ocean Data View, http://odv.awi.de, 2015), version 4.7.2, in accordance with the metadata reported in Supplementary Table S2.