Table 2. Goodness of fit statistics or squared coefficients of environmental variables fitted to the Nonmetric Multi-dimensional Scaling (NMDS) ordination space of fungal, Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, and ECM fungal communities.

Environmental variables	Fungi	Ascomycota	Basidiomycota	ECM fungi
Forest age	0.378 *	0.043	0.626 **	0.427 *
Elevation (m)	0.188	0.042	0.749 **	0.250
Herb layer cover (%)	0.052	0.004	0.266	0.238
Tree layer cover (%)	0.487 *	0.063	0.745 **	0.651 **
Deadwood cover (%)	0.123	0.006	0.686 **	0.509 *
Bare soil cover (%)	0.083	0.244	0.242	0.087
Rock cover (%)	0.637 *	0.621 *	0.133	0.337
Litter layer (thickness, cm)	0.613 *	0.312	0.288	0.494 *
Herb species richness	0.209	0.127	0.484	0.071
Tree species richness	0.418	0.693 **	0.189	0.307
Herbaceous biomass (g)	0.025	0.137	0.374	0.368
Woody plant biomass (<1 m) (g)	0.685 **	0.089	0.630 *	0.708 **
Litter biomass (dry weight, g)	0.159	0.055	0.103	0.094
Sand (%)	0.741 **	0.730 **	0.091	0.386
Clay (%)	0.154	0.566 *	0.171	0.405
Soil organic carbon (%)	0.841 ***	0.638 **	0.184	0.506
C/N	0.382	0.429	0.035	0.031
pHKCl	0.342	0.277	0.179	0.460

^* P<0.05,

^** P<0.01,

^*** P<0.001, Fungi = Kingdom Fungi.

Significant correlations (Bonferroni corrected P<0.05) are presented in bold.