Fig. 3.

The abundances of each class of organism [Top, small T. thermophila (“s-Tt”); Middle, large T. thermophila (“l-Tt”); Bottom, C. reinhardtii (“Cr”)] from 23 replicate ecosystems are plotted as time series. The abundance estimates $N_c\left(t\right)$ are plotted in Left, and the temporally aligned, normalized abundances ${Ñ}_c\left(t\right)$ are plotted in Right (Materials and Methods). In all panels, data from the reference replicate used for temporal alignment is plotted in a darker color. All counts are incremented by $\frac{1}{2}$ to avoid divergence of zero counts on the log scale.