Fig. 2
From: Fungal communities on alpine cheese rinds in Southern Switzerland
Analysis of the ecological data collected by cultural methods and metabarcoding. In A and B, green circles indicate cellar A (Bolla and Carassina), orange ticks cellar B (Bresciana), blue diamonds cellar C (Campo La Torba), magenta triangles cellar D (Formazzora), and grey squares cellar E (Pontino). In C and D, A–E indicate the cellars as described in Table 1. A, B Whittaker plots. The number of individuals of each OTU are sorted in descending order; the proportion of the total number of individuals for each species is plotted on the log scale against the OTU rank, presenting the richness of each species ranked from the most (rank 1) to the least frequent rank. The steep plots indicate communities with high dominance. A Samples studied by metabarcoding using OTUs with frequencies >1%. B Samples studied by cultural methods. C, D Plot of the evenness vs. richness data for each cellar. C Metabarcoding data, using OTUs with frequencies >1%. D Culture data