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We detrended the CVs of OTUs from the ARISA data because the CVs were strongly related to mean OTU relative abundance. We expected the CVs of the OTUs to decrease as OTUs became more abundant. Thus, we fitted an exponential function to the data and used the residuals of this relationship in the subsequent mixed model.
