Figure 1From: Environmental distribution of prokaryotic taxaQuantification of specific and cosmopolitan taxa. Left side: percentage of specific taxa for the three levels of environmental classification. A particular taxa is defined as specific when a given percentage of its observations belong to a single environment. That percentage is shown in the abscissa axis. Right side: percentage of cosmopolitan taxa for the three levels of environmental classification, in relation to the number of environments in which the taxa is present.Back to article page