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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 29.
Published in final edited form as: Mar Ecol Prog Ser. 2020 Oct 29;653:57–75. doi: 10.3354/meps13487

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1.

Community composition and dynamics of oyster EF and water samples. A) Monthly and 12-month average bacterial community compositions (class level) of oyster EF (red) and water (blue) samples. Each month is the average community composition of three oyster or two water samples. B) Mean community similarity between oyster EF and water samples each month as determined by weighted UniFrac distance. Lower values indicate greater similarity between communities. C) Mean similarity of oyster EF communities (red) or water communities (blue) as a function of the amount of time between samples. Community similarities were calculated by weighted Unifrac distance and grouped by the time between samples (e.g. January vs. March and July vs. September communities both belong to the 2 months between samples comparison). UniFrac distances were significantly lower (p < 0.05) for water column communities as compared to oyster EF communities at all time intervals except for seven months between samples. Error bars are standard error.