| ND | Non-degraded |
| LD | Slightly degraded |
| MD | Moderately degraded |
| HD | Heavily degraded |
| D. purpurea | Deyeuxia purpurea |
| NMDS | Non-metric multidimensional scaling |
| RDA | Redundancy analysis |
| IV | Importance values |
| H′ | Shannon–Wiener diversity index |
| D | Simpson dominance index |
| R | Patrick richness index |
| J | Pielou’s evenness index |
| I | Sorenson’s similarity index |
| AGB | Aboveground biomass |
| BGB | Belowground biomass |
| TB | Total biomass |
| pH | Soil pH |
| WC | Soil water content |
| TP | Total phosphorus |
| TK | Total potassium |
| AP | Available phosphorus |
| AK | Available potassium |
| NH4+-N | Ammonia nitrogen |
| NO3−-N | Nitrate nitrogen |
| DON | Dissolved organic nitrogen |
| DOC | Dissolved organic carbon |
| PLS-PM | Partial least squares path modeling |
| GOF | Goodness-of-fit |
| SC | Species composition |
| SD | Diversity |
| BM | Biomass |