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(A) Bar plots showing functional pathways that were statistically significantly different in abundance between red snow and snow. (B) Bar plots depicting energy metabolism pathways and their abundances in red snow and snow.

N = 678. Scales comprised means from reverse-scored five-point Likert scale questions. Snow leopard attitudinal scale components: snow leopards; future presence of snow leopards; Cronbach’s alpha = 0.878. Snow leopard conservation attitudinal scale components comprise: park management; local conservation committee; snow leopard killing ban; snow leopard prey killing ban; livestock compensation scheme; corral construction; environmental education; non-timber forest product collection limits; wood collection limits; Cronbach’s alpha = 0.664.

(A) Abundances of viruses, Bacteria and Eukaryotes in samples from red snow and snow communities. The y-axis shows abundances after normalizing and standardizing raw read counts to ensure cross-sample comparisons are valid. (B) Bar plots showing abundances of two Eukaryotic phyla found in red snow and snow communities. Chlorophyta is the phylum that contains the genus Chlamydomonas.

They also have more images per year in which MODIS misses the presence of snow. (a) Sites with more snow tend to have a higher MODIS sensitivity. The fit logarithmic function explains 43% of variation. The outlier is the site at Port Alsworth, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska. (b) Sites with more snow tend to have a greater number of images for which MODIS misses the snow. The Port Alsworth outlier is not shown; MODIS missed snow at this site 14 times out of 21 images, which scales to a “missed snow” rate of 232 days per year. The camera at Port Alsworth has known color balance issues.