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Fig. 5 | Microbiome

Fig. 5

From: Agricultural management and plant selection interactively affect rhizosphere microbial community structure and nitrogen cycling

Fig. 5

Microbial co-occurrence networks. Bacterial and fungal co-occurrence networks constructed from ASV-level data corresponding to each combination of management system and soil compartment have different structural characteristics. Nodes indicate amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) and edges represent significant co-occurrence relationships (Spearman’s ρ > 0.75 and p < 0.05). a For bacteria, conventional networks had more edges but the same number of nodes as compared to organic networks. Furthermore, while the rhizosphere network had fewer edges than the bulk soil network in the conventional system, the rhizosphere network had more edges than the bulk soil network in the organic system. b Fungal rhizosphere networks were smaller, less connected, less dense, less centralized, and more modular than the corresponding bulk soil networks in both systems. Network properties and their ecological relevance are described in more detail in Table 1

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