FIG 1.

Depiction of the sampling design within each meadow. We sampled six transects per meadow to characterize the prevalence and severity of wasting disease lesions and meadow characteristics (longest leaf length, sheath length, and shoot density). We collected three microbiome samples per transect. This included lesion tissue and green tissue adjacent to lesions from the same leaf for comparisons of “tissue type.” We also sampled green tissue from a nonlesioned leaf from a different shoot for comparisons of “lesion status.” Lesion status allows comparisons among green tissue samples from both lesioned and nonlesioned leaves.