Fig. 3

The survival and suppression of resident taxa after coalescence. a The proportion of suppressed/survived taxa in the resident sub-community. The gray color indicates the taxa that survived coalescence, while other colors represent suppressed ones. b Represents the abundance of ASVs (number of reads) present in the original communities and the uninvaded control that were suppressed by coalescence at each sampling time. c Represents the abundance of ASVs (number of reads) present in the original communities and uninvaded controls that survived coalescence at each sampling time. Each dot corresponds to the abundance of a specific ASV in each community. The orange dots indicate the mean value. On average, the number of resident ASVs that survived coalescence increased upon invasion, at the first 15 days of coalescence, as they were present in lower numbers in the original and uninvaded control. One-way ANOVA and p value indicate the global variance among groups. Asterisks above the violin plot represent the significant difference in the mean abundance of ASVs between different communities (“ns”, p > 0.05, “*”, p < 0.05, “**”, p < 0.01, “***”, p < 0.001, “****”, p < 0.0001; paired t-test)