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. 2013 Jan 16;110(6):2342–2347. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1212424110

Table 1.

Linear regression statistics on median latitudinal ranges and latitude, and median SST ranges and SST

Latitude and median latitudinal ranges
SST and median SST ranges
Taxonomic group Slope ± SEM Adjusted R2 P value Slope ± SEM Adjusted R2 P value
Bacteria 0.61 ± 0.02 0.77 <0.001 1.30 ± 0.08 0.51 <0.001
Acidobacteria −0.08 ± 0.03 0.04 0.008 0.04 ± 0.07 0 0.596
Actinobacteria 0.36 ± 0.04 0.20 <0.001 −0.47 ± 0.12 0.05 <0.001
Bacteroidetes 0.62 ± 0.03 0.58 <0.001 −0.85 ± 0.13 0.12 <0.001
Chlamydia 0.09 ± 0.03 0.04 0.008 −0.28 ± 0.08 0.06 0.001
Chloroflexi 0.02 ± 0.03 0 0.457 0.01 ± 0.08 0 0.915
Cyanobacteria 0.16 ± 0.03 0.08 <0.001 −0.47 ± 0.07 0.17 <0.001
Deferribacter 0.31 ± 0.03 0.25 <0.001 −0.48 ± 0.08 0.10 <0.001
Firmicutes 0.15 ± 0.02 0.12 <0.001 −0.47 ± 0.07 0.13 <0.001
Gemmatimonadetes 0.06 ± 0.03 0.02 <0.001 −0.10 ± 0.09 0 0.310
Planctomycetes 0.10 ± 0.03 0.03 0.001 −0.38 ± 0.08 0.07 <0.001
α-Proteobacteria 0.62 ± 0.02 0.79 <0.001 1.23 ± 0.07 0.56 <0.001
β-Proteobacteria 0.42 ± 0.04 0.33 <0.001 0.83 ± 0.10 0.20 <0.001
γ-Proteobacteria 0.71 ± 0.03 0.66 <0.001 1.66 ± 0.14 0.33 <0.001
δ-Proteobacteria 0.30 ± 0.03 0.34 <0.001 0.92 ± 0.07 0.38 <0.001
ɛ-Proteobacteria 0.14 ± 0.03 0.08 <0.001 −0.20 ± 0.10 0.01 0.044
Verrucomicrobia 0.31 ± 0.03 0.23 <0.001 −0.23 ± 0.10 0.02 0.017

Boldface indicates Adjusted R2 value was equal or higher than 0.2.