Dear community members:

I ran into this image from a paper (Vieira et al., 2016: Species Specificity of Bacteria Associated to the Brown Seaweeds Lobophora (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) and Their Potential for Induction of Rapid Coral Bleaching in Acropora muricata). It's Figure_3 of the paper.

I wanted to see if I could re-create this image but w/ my data. After searching for a while, I am unable to find a tutorial or even how to begin to do this in R. As you can see it's a type of bubble plot, but it extends from phylum to class to order showing the relative abundances (%) for each classification.

Could someone direct me into the right direction?

So many thanks!