Fig. 5

Limited number of taxa comprise core community throughout equilibration. Heatmaps showing prevalence (legend at right) of core ASVs at increasing thresholds of relative abundance at Early (TP1 to TP4), Mid (TP5 to TP8), and Late (TP9 to TP12) time-points (A); alluvial plots showing distribution of core taxa among sample sites within each period of time (legend at right) (B). See Additional file 3 for taxonomic identity of core ASVs