Shifts in the Microbial Community Composition of Gulf Coast Beaches Following Beach Oiling
Figure 5
Dendrogram illustrating the bacterial community composition relationships among samples and select sample characteristics.
An average-group linkage dendrogram is presented to illustrate the bacterial community composition relationships among the exposed sand (left) and water (right) samples. The mean OTU composition was used to represent beaches with multiple sequenced samples from the same date. Sample features are indicated with colored boxes according to the key. For example, the first rectangle next to the beach name represents samples collected from either west of Mobile Bay (blue) or east of Mobile Bay (yellow).