Table 3.

Direct, indirect, and total path coefficients of the controls of dominant site factors on abundance of bacterial and saprophytic communities.

Factors	Effect	State variables
		S (Tsoil10)	S (%SWC)	S (C/Nsoil)	S (FR)	S (Bacteria)	S (Sap)
F (% Clay)	Direct	−0.658	0.488	0	0	0.292	−0.271
	Indirect	0	0.297	−0.513	0.253	0.400	−0.454
	Total	−0.658	0.785	−0.513	0.253	0.692	−0.725
F (Tsoil10)	Direct	0	−0.452	0.396	0.649	0	0
	Indirect	0	0	0.146	−0.391	−0.072	0.325
	Total	0	−0.452	0.542	0.258	−0.072	0.325
F (%SWC)	Direct	0	0	−0.321	0.866	0.383	−0.409
	Indirect	0	0	0	0	0.340	−0.083
	Total	0	0	−0.321	0.866	0.723	−0.492
F (C/Nsoil)	Direct	0	0	0	0	0	0.259
	Indirect	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	0	0	0	0	0	0.259
F (FR)	Direct	0	0	0	0	0.392	0
	Indirect	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	0	0	0	0	0.392	0

% Clay, soil clay content; T_soil10, soil temperature at 10 cm depth; %SWC, soil water content; C/N_soil), soil carbon/nitrogen ratio; FR, fine root mass; Bacteria, abundance of bacterial community; Sap, abundance of saprophytic fungal community.