Figure 7.
Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination for bacterial community structure based on the relative abundance of 16S ASVs. Community dissimilarity was evaluated with four metrics: Bray–Curtis, Jaccard, weighted UniFrac, and unweighted UniFrac. Arrowed lines (vectors) showing correlation between physicochemical properties and community dissimilarity were plotted for Bray–Curtis and weighted UniFrac metrics. The vectors represented mean direction and strength of correlation. Ellipses indicating confidence intervals of 95% for all honey types were plotted for Jaccard and unweighted UniFrac metrics.