Fig. 2From: Stable functional structure despite high taxonomic variability across fungal communities in soils of old-growth montane forestsa Alpha diversity of fungal communities according to forest associations dominated by fir (A. forrestii), spruce (P. likiangensis), oak (Q. pannosa), season (wet or dry), and soil layer (OS, OM); confidence interval (95%); asterisks indicate significance (p ≤ 0.001). b,c,d Fungal community dissimilarities between all pairs of sites (Abies-, Picea-, Quercus-dominated forests) and between seasons and soil layers using Bray–Curtis dissimilarities based on the relative abundance of OTUs (rDNA ITS2). Data structures were visualized using non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS)Back to article page