Table 1. Effects of grazing treatment (G), soil position (SP) and their interaction on soil microbial diversity and chemical properties in a desert steppe ecosystem in China.

Resource		Grazing (G)		Soil position (SP)		G * SP
		F	P-value	F	P-value	F	P-value
Bacteria	Richness	26.118	<0.001	26.974	<0.001	21.329	<0.001
	Shannon	17.917	<0.001	10.964	0.002	12.468	<0.001
	Chao1	13.907	<0.001	12.038	0.002	10.936	<0.001
Fungi	Richness	1.268	0.296	2.884	0.1	3.656	0.038
	Shannon	0.297	0.745	1.933	0.175	1.937	0.162
	Chao1	2.124	0.137	0.573	0.455	3.084	0.061
Chemical properties	pH	20.648	<0.001	392.225	<0.001	17.944	<0.001
	SOC (g kg−1)	0.165	0.85	5.029	0.045	0.055	0.947
	Total P (g kg−1)	12.194	0.001	2.522	0.138	3.149	0.08
	Available P (mg kg−1)	13.508	0.001	41.296	<0.001	1.886	0.194
	${\mathrm{NH}}_4^{+}$-N (mg kg−1)	66.204	<0.001	569.775	<0.001	42.76	<0.001
	${\mathrm{NO}}_3^{-}$-N (mg kg−1)	62.406	<0.001	313.895	<0.001	41.127	<0.001
	Inorganic N (mg kg−1)	64.573	<0.001	863.851	<0.001	66.03	<0.001
	Total C (g kg−1)	1.803	0.207	62.105	<0.001	0.165	0.85
	Total N (g kg−1)	2.382	0.135	33.891	<0.001	2.016	0.176