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Fig. 7 | Microbiome

Fig. 7

From: Resource-dependent biodiversity and potential multi-trophic interactions determine belowground functional trait stability

Fig. 7

Schematic diagram of the potential regulation of belowground biodiversity and potential multi-trophic interactions to functional trait stability in low and high resource environments. Under the low resource condition, the biodiversity and species associations between the same trophic levels jointly affect the functional trait stability; while under the high resource condition, cross-trophic associations determine the functional trait stability. The boxes under the arrows indicate the functional trait pool. Circles with different colors indicate different functional traits. The size of the circle represents the coefficient of variation (CV) of the functional trait. The larger the circle, the greater the 1/CV. 1/CV is obtained by the ratio of the mean (μ) to the standard deviation (σ) of frequency of every functional trait. The larger the average value of standardized redundancy and 1/CV, the greater connectivity and stability of the functional traits

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