Interactive Effects of Disturbance, Productivity, and Consumer Diversity on the Structure of Prey Communities

Figure 5

First two axes of the nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis of bacteria morphotype composition. The analysis was performed using the Bray-Curtis dissimilarities of morphotype densities. Shown are results for all replicates of all treatment combinations. Squares correspond to high disturbance treatments and triangles correspond to low disturbance. Open symbols correspond to consumer monocultures and closed symbols correspond to consumer polycultures. Black symbols are low productivity treatments and red symbols are high productivity treatments.