Fig. 1

Trade-off between PCP degradation and physiological profile of a metacommunity of fungi: a Percentage of PCP degradation throughout the incubation time of the metacommunity exposed to PCP (grey bars). Also shown are the growth curve (fresh weight, FW) for the PCP exposed metacommunity (red line) and the control (blue line). b PCP degradation pathway of the metacommunity disclosing the diversity of intra (left brackets) and extracellular (right brackets) PCP-derivatives at the third (blue), fifth (orange), seventh (green) and tenth (red) day of exposure to the biocide. The names of the molecules are depicted as acronyms as follows: TeC (tetrachloro), TC (trichloro), DC (dichloro), P (phenol), BQ (benzoquinone) R (resorcinol), HQ (hydroquinone), C (catechol) and THB (trihydroxybenzene). Additionally, molecules inside boxes indicate conjugations, such as methylations (M). The ortho (o), para (p) and meta (m) isomers are also discriminated whenever needed. Asterisks mark compounds which were identified also at the abiotic control. c Utilisation profile of carbon and nitrogen sources by the metacommunity exposed to PCP compared to control conditions (Biolog FF microplates) revealing the cumulative differential utilisation of each substrate category