The Effect of a Sublethal Temperature Elevation on the Structure of Bacterial Communities Associated with the Coral Porites compressa
Figure 5
NMDS ordination of coral-associated bacterial communities based on Bray-Curtis similarity. Points represent coral-associated bacterial communities sampled directly from the three source colonies in Kaneohe Bay (PC1, PC2, and PC3) and from experimental tanks. (a) Sampling times are listed adjacent to points, and colonies are represented by circles (colony 1), squares (colony 2), and triangles (colony 3). Control and treatment samples are represented by open and closed symbols, respectively. In (b) and (c), colony numbers are superimposed on the relative abundance bubbles, and the diameter of each bubble is correlated to the square root transformed relative abundance of (b) T-RF 303 or (c) T-RF 264 for each sample. The solid (a) and dashed (a)–(c) lines demarcate 40% and 25% Bray-Curtis similarity thresholds, respectively.
