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Table 3.

Spearman's rank correlation coefficient rho of relative 16S rRNA gene T-RF abundances across all forest samples with soil and site characteristics^a

Characteristic (n = 30 samples)	T-RF 90, Gp1	T-RF 256, Gp1	T-RF 142, Gp3	T-RF 134, Gp5	T-RF 163, Gp6	T-RF 189, Gp6	T-RF 192, Gp6	T-RF 281, Gp6	T-RF 283, Gp6	T-RF 460, Gp11	T-RF 130, Gp17	T-RF 429	T-RF 554
pH	0.60^***	−0.67^***	0.42	0.87^***	0.73^***	0.88^***	0.83^***	0.85^***	0.75^***	0.49^*	0.83^***	−0.89^***	−0.77^***
C_org	0.52^*	−0.50^*	0.31	0.71^***	0.56^**	0.75^***	0.74^***	0.79^***	0.58^**	0.39	0.72^***	−0.70^***	−0.61^***
Nitrogen (N)	0.54^*	−0.56^**	0.38	0.74^***	0.60^**	0.79^***	0.78^***	0.84^***	0.67^***	0.44	0.73^***	−0.76^***	−0.63^***
C_org/N ratio	−0.32	0.57^**	−0.69^***	−0.66^***	−0.49^*	−0.70^***	−0.70^***	−0.81^***	−0.77^***	−0.41	−0.70^***	0.85^***	0.58^**
Phosphorus	0.36	−0.53^*	0.40	0.71^***	0.48^*	0.68^***	0.72^***	0.79^***	0.60^**	0.47	0.72^***	−0.72^***	−0.57^**
Soil moisture	0.40	−0.51^*	0.59^**	0.58^**	0.41	0.67^***	0.61^***	0.62^***	0.71^***	0.30	0.67^***	−0.72^***	−0.57^**
Amoebae	0.16	−0.31	0.32	0.34	0.27	0.44	0.42	0.444	0.43	0.17	0.47	−0.35	−0.51^*
Nitrate	0.19	−0.27	0.46	0.18	0.16	0.38	0.36	0.39	0.54^*	0.21	0.26	−0.35	−0.12

Only T-RFs with significant (*, P < 0.05; **, P < 0.01; ***, P < 0.001) correlations are shown in bold. P values have been adjusted for multiple comparisons by the FDR approach. The predominant acidobacterial subgroup represented by the analyzed T-RFs is mentioned. Soil temperature, soil respiration, abundance of flagellates and ciliates, the number of vascular plant species, land use intensity, C/N ratio, and ammonium content were included in the calculations but did not show any significant correlations and, therefore, have been excluded from the table.