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. 2009 Jul 31;75(18):5750–5760. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00040-09

TABLE 6.

Simple Mantel test for the bacterial population in this studya

Factor 99% OTU
97% OTU
95% OTU
r P r P r P
Cl− 0.226 0.147 −0.069 0.464 −0.043 0.479
CO32− 0.350 0.090 0.135 0.275 0.166 0.399
Distance −0.125 0.166 −0.484 0.0016 −0.328 0.002
HCO3− 0.362 0.002 0.131 0.319 0.168 0.370
K+ 0.118 0.290 0.210 0.180 0.000 0.417
Mg2+ −0.230 0.127 0.282 0.159 0.226 0.145
pH 0.358 0.033 0.306 0.119 0.325 0.045
S2− 0.068 0.359 −0.056 0.404 −0.083 0.367
Temp −0.068 0.396 0.503 0.022 0.372 0.048
Na+ −0.184 0.192 −0.381 0.002 −0.374 0.010
a

r2 is the correlation value, and positive or negative values reflect the type of relationship between the two matrices, while P is the probability associated with r2. P values are significant if P is <0.05 (boldface).