Fig. 2
From: Assembly processes and functional diversity of marine protists and their rare biosphere
Protistan taxonomic composition and underlying assembly processes along rank abundance curves. Abundant OTUs (left side of all graphs) were selected using the multivariate approach of ref [5]. Subsets of 5000 OTUs were computed with a sliding window along rank abundance curves (X axis on all plots). The last two subsets contain less OTUs because rank abundance curves are not exact multiples of 2500. (A) Taxonomy is given at the Division level (as annotated with the PR2 database v4.13.0 [36]), taxonomic ranks were sorted by Supergroups. (B) Assembly processes were inferred from the distribution of the OTUs in each subset using the method of Stegen et al. [14], the number of samples from which assembly processes were inferred was annotated on top of each barplot. Assembly processes were converted into types of rarity following the nomenclature of ref [5]