Fig. 5. Dynamics of the nanodiatoms isolated in the Western English Channel.
Variations in relative abundances of the OTUs related to a. Minidiscus comicus, b Minidiscus spinulatus, c Minidiscus variabilis, d Thalassiosira curviseriata, e Thalassiosira cf. profunda, and f Thalassiosira sp. at the SOMLIT-Astan station during the period 2009–2016. Note that metabarcoding data corresponding to 25 sampling dates (mainly between 2014 and 2015) were removed from the dataset (see “Material and methods”).