Fig. 1From: Persistence, impacts and environmental drivers of covert infections in invertebrate hostsVariation in numbers of live colonies and colony size over time. a The total number of live colonies collected every 45Â days over 12Â months from the Rivers Avon, Dun and Itchen (pooling over the number of colonies sampled from the three tree root systems in each river). b Boxplot showing mean (black circle) colony size (total number of zooids per live colony) for a subset of colonies sampled in each river over time. Numbers are n-values (pooling colonies from the three tree root systems in each river and excluding dead colonies with statoblasts)Back to article page