Shifts of Bacterioplankton Metabolic Profiles along the Salinity Gradient in a Subtropical Estuary
Figure 3
Influence of salinity gradient on prokaryotic cell numbers () (a) and the number of positive substrates in each block of EcoPlate () (b). Data are sorted by each sampling site. Regression line (solid) and 95% confidence band (dashed line) are shown in both panels but a 95% prediction band (gray line) is only shown in panel (b). The value from Site A1 collected in spring was an outlier of the cell count values and hence omitted from the data analysis. Some data overlapped each other in panel (b).
