| SOC | Soil organic carbon |
| SOM | Soil organic matter |
| TN | Total nitrogen |
| TP | Total phosphorus |
| AP | Available phosphorus |
| NO3−-N | Nitrate nitrogen |
| DOM | Dissolved organic matter |
| DOC | Dissolved organic carbon |
| POC | Particulate organic carbon |
| MAOC | Mineral-associated organic carbon |
| POM | Particulate organic matter |
| MAOM | Mineral-associated organic matter |
| MB | Microbial biomass |
| MBC | Microbial biomass carbon |
| MBN | Microbial biomass nitrogen |
| MBP | Microbial biomass phosphorus |
| MN | Microbial necromass |
| MNC | Microbial necromass carbon |
| FNC | Fungal necromass carbon |
| BNC | Bacterial necromass carbon |
| GlcN | Glucosamine |
| MurA | Muramic acid |
| MCG | Moss-covered group |
| NMCG | Non-moss-covered composite group |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| RPKM | Reads per kilobase per million mapped reads |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| SRA | Sequence Read Archive |
| CAZyme | Carbohydrate-active enzyme |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| db-RDA | Distance-based redundancy analysis |
| CAP | Canonical analysis of principal coordinates |
| SEM | Structural equation modeling |
| ANOVA | Analysis of variance |
| SE | Standard error |
| MEMS | Microbial Efficiency-Matrix Stabilization |