Fig. 1. Microbial life-history traits.
Box plots show the comparisons of life-history trait values between bare and vegetated soils. The medians in these box plots are as follows (bare soil vs vegetated soil): average 16S rRNA copy number (3.34 vs 3.74), codon usage bias (0.0178 vs 0.0180), maximum growth rate (0.093 h−1 vs 0.102 h−1), average genome size (5.48 Mb vs 5.58 Mb), GC content (68.06% vs 67.39%), variance of GC content (56.84 vs 70.96).