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. 2018 Mar 12;8:4382. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-22380-z

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Four alternative hypotheses on the potential influence of spatial and temporal (i.e. seasonality) variability on soil bacterial community composition in a LTERF on terra firme in Amazonia, Brazil (modified after Martiny, et al.⁷⁷). H₁, bacterial communities are randomly distributed both in space and time (i.e. they are not influenced by resource spatial variability and by seasonality patterns); H₂, bacterial community composition is influenced by resource spatial variability, but not by seasonality patterns; H₃, bacterial community composition is influenced by seasonality patterns, but not by resource spatial variability; H₄, bacterial community composition reflects both spatial and temporal conditions. For readability five sample points of the 15 in the present study are shown. Different colours represent samples collected during the rainy season (green), at the transition between rainy and dry season (blue), and during the dry season (grey).