Figure 6.

The effect of early and late dispersal treatments on the relative abundances of rewetting tolerance groups (a–c) and respiration rates (d). (a) Rewetting tolerant; (b) rewetting sensitive; (c) rewetting opportunistic; (d) specific respiration. The different symbols represent the different source pools (empty circles indicate the permanent (P), ‘x’ indicate the medium (M) and triangles the temporary (T) pool). Solid horizontal lines indicate the mean values of the given parameter in the samples before desiccation (control and drying sampling), whereas dashed lines indicate the standard deviation from the mean values. Significant post hoc groups (P<0.05) among the different dispersal treatment levels (no, low, high rate) are represented by lowercase letters. The P-values of corresponding two-way ANOVAs are shown on the figures (for more see Supplementary Table S5).