Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2018 Sep 25;6:e5661. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5661

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

©2018 Ritter et al.

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.

PMC Copyright notice

Prokaryotes (16S) are showed in (A) OTU richness and (B) effective number of OTUs; eukaryotes (18S) are showed in (C) OTU richness and (D) effective number of OTUs in the Amazonian soil samples. The blue line shows a linear regression with standard error indicated by the shaded area for significant correlations. The relationship between soil layers (litter vs soil) is weak and differs between taxa, with only prokaryotes showing a significant correlation for richness and effective number of OTUs. This result suggests that it OTU diversity in litter is unsuitable as proxy for the OTU diversity in the soil and vice versa.