Fig. 2. Patterns of abundant and rare taxa based on
compositional and phylogenetic similarities. Distance-decay curves of
compositional similarity (a, Bray–Curtis similarity) and phylogenetic
similarity (b, 1-βMNTD) for abundant and rare taxa; Differences in
community distance (c, Bray–Curtis dissimilarity) and phylogenetic
distance (d, βMNTD dissimilarity) between abundant and rare taxa. Gray
shaded areas in the plots (a and b) denote 95% confidence intervals.
Asterisks indicate significance (***, P < 0.001)
according to nonparametric Wilcoxon rank-sum test.