Fig. 8

Beta diversity measures for the room temperature storage experiment. Magnitudes of the different measures (indicated on the y axes) are quantified between the aliquots stored for 4 hours at room temperature and aliquots stored for the time indicated on the x axis. Stars above timepoints indicate any significant difference (determined by the Mann-Whitney U test) when comparing the magnitudes at that timepoint to the standard values; *p value of <0.05, **p value of <0.01. Simple and more complex communities were tested separately with i showing timecourses for simple community samples and ii showing time courses for more complex community samples. Points are coloured by infant and metrics summarising the spread of the standard values are indicated by the dashed lines