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. 2013 Jun 27;8(6):e66829. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066829

Table 3. Influence of forest age, elevation of the study site and soil organic carbon (SOC) on the fungal community composition.

Factors	Fungi		Ascomycota		Basidiomycota		ECM fungi
	F Model	R²	F Model	R²	F Model	R²	F Model	R²
Forest age	1.843	0.135 ^**	1.424	0.100	2.015	0.146 ^**	1.924	0.136 ^**
SOC	1.633	0.120 ^**	1.883	0.131 ^**	1.515	0.110 ^*	1.434	0.102 ^*
Elevation	1.294	0.095	1.305	0.091	1.407	0.102 ^*	1.402	0.099 ^*
Forest age:SOC	1.146	0.084	1.271	0.089	1.132	0.082	1.246	0.089
Forest age:Elevation	1.130	0.083	1.208	0.084	1.224	0.089	1.391	0.098 ^*
SOC:Elevation	1.182	0.087	1.196	0.084	1.270	0.092	1.448	0.103 ^*
Forest age:SOC:Elevation	1.372	0.100 ^*	2.013	0.140 ^**	1.169	0.085	1.205	0.086

Significant values (P<0.05) of the permutational multivariate analysis of variance results are presented in bold.

^*

P<0.05,

^**

P<0.01,

^***

P<0.001, Fungi = Kingdom Fungi.