Fig. 1
From: Functional traits and adaptation of lake microbiomes on the Tibetan Plateau
Geographic locations and community structures of the 54 Tibet lakes studied here. Freshwater, brackish, and saline lakes are colored in green, gray, and blue, respectively. A Map of the study area. The studied lakes are marked using color dots. Lakes investigated in the Tibetan Plateau Microbial Catalog (TPMC) are marked using open triangles. Large rivers are marked using blue lines. B Community variations at taxonomic and functional levels. Non-metric multidimensional scaling analysis (NMDS) plots are derived from the Bray–Curtis distance matrix based on 14 marker genes for taxonomic diversity and 15,943 genes with KEGG annotation for functional diversity. Samples and 95% confidence intervals are shown using color dots and ellipses, respectively. The percentage of variation explained by ecological factors follows each lake type. Community similarities between different types of Tibet lakes are assessed using ANOSIM analysis with significance of 0.001 for all estimations