FIGURES CAPTIONS
Fig. 1. Study area and sampling design. Maps are pseudo-color representation of altitude (source: 30 arc-sec digital elevation model) and land cover (Source: Copernicus Sentinel data 2019) created by AG, SM and GFF.
Fig. 2. Variation of alpha-diversity (measured using q = 1) through time and depth in six taxonomic groups. Results obtained using q = 0 can be seen in Table S3.
Fig. 3. Differences in total beta diversity between soil depths through time.
Fig. 4. Ordination of the community structures (Hellinger distances dissimilarities) of the six taxonomic groups in the five proglacial plains at two sampling depths (0-5 cm and 7.5-20 cm). The first two axes of the distance-based Principal Component Analyses are displayed with corresponding percentage of explained variance. Sample points are displayed with color representing time since glacier retreat.