Fig. 5

Bray Curtis based non-metric multidimensional scaling plot of plastisphere sample community structure following successive incubations of plastic in WWTP effluent, river water, brackish water and seawater from WGS data. Centroids of baseline communities (planktonic WWTP effluent, river water and seawater) are labelled. Coloured bubbles represent the areas covered by each timepoint. Timepoints of 1-day and 1-week are shown by different shapes and plastics (LDPE, PET and PP) by colour