Table 5.

Relationship between soil properties, earthworms and major bacterial phyla in different agriculture management scenarios.

Bacterial phyla	pH	EC (dSm−1)	SOC (g kg−1)	N (kg ha−1)	P (kg ha−1)	K (kg ha−1)	Fe (mg kg−1)	Mn (mg kg−1)	Zn (mg kg−1)	Cu (mg kg−1)
Earthworms	−0.38	−0.02	0.28	0.54	0.54	0.57	0.27	0.26	−0.41	0.65*
Proteobacteria	−0.93**	0.22	0.12	0.36	0.36	0.38	0.65	0.67*	−0.07	0.34
Actinobacteria	−0.25	−0.02	−0.41	0.29	0.29	0.52	0.28	−0.25	−0.04	0.50
Firmicutes	0.65*	−0.11	0.40	−0.16	−0.16	−0.48	−0.57	−0.12	−0.26	−0.32
Acidobacteria	0.43	0.00	0.36	−0.20	−0.20	−0.44	−0.18	0.12	0.30	−0.39
Chloroflexi	−0.66*	0.14	0.09	−0.01	−0.01	0.11	0.05	0.46	−0.46	0.00
Crenarchaeota	−0.54	0.19	0.20	0.13	0.13	0.19	−0.05	0.43	−0.55	0.14
Bacteroidetes	−0.68*	0.38	0.54	0.46	0.46	0.31	0.40	0.84*	−0.12	0.34
Verrucomicrobia	0.43	0.16	0.50	−0.22	−0.22	−0.47	−0.45	0.21	0.08	−0.44
Gemmatimonadetes	0.21	0.19	0.43	0.14	0.14	0.01	0.13	0.30	0.56	0.01
Nitrospirae	0.31	0.17	0.32	0.37	0.37	0.27	0.25	0.10	0.65*	0.33

*Significance at the p < 0.05; **Significance at the p < 0.001.