Fig. 2From: Disentangling the mechanisms shaping the surface ocean microbiotaMain variables influencing the structure of the surface-ocean microbiota as captured by different β-diversity metrics. Percentage of variance in picoeukaryotic and prokaryotic community composition (ADONIS R2) explained by water temperature and Longhurst Provinces when using different β-diversity metrics. Figure based on the Malaspina Meta-119 dataset (see ‘Methods’ section). TINAw TINA weighted, gUniFrac generalized Unifrac, PINAw PINA weighted, N.S. non-significant. Note that TINAw, which considers species association networks, captures a significantly higher proportion of community variance associated to temperature than Bray-Curtis, a compositional index, in prokaryotesBack to article page