Fig. 3

Differences in alpha diversity metrics of the gut bacterial microbiotas of red deer living under three management conditions (free living (FL), winter-gated (WG), and all-year-gated (G)) in the Bavarian Forest National Park. (A) Shannon diversity index, (B) Number of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs), and (C) Faith’s Phylogenetic Diversity. (D) shows results from the the Kruskal-Wallis test for each alpha diversity metric