Table 3.

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients between root colonization of river corridor plant species by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi/fungal endophytes and particular soil parameters/river corridor-specificity index

	pH	N (%)	C (%)	Organic matter (%)	C/N	K2O	P2O5	K+	Na+	Ca+	Mg2+	RCSI
FAMF %	−0.14	0.27	0.27	0.28	−0.08	0.02	−0.13	−0.03	0.16	0.23	0.20	−0.10
MAMF %	−0.16	0.34	0.32	0.34	−0.16	0.09	−0.07	0.04	0.25	0.31	0.27	−0.15
AAMF %	−0.16	0.33	0.32	0.33	−0.16	0.09	0.07	0.04	0.25	0.32	0.29	−0.18
FDSE %	−0.32	0.52*	0.54*	0.53*	−0.04	0.02	0.10	0.05	0.18	0.26	0.22	−0.25
FOlp %	0.37*	0.14	0.07	0.08	−0.22	0.36*	0.21	0.34	−0.01	0.23	0.37*	−0.20

For explanation of abbreviation, see Table 1 or the main text. Correlation coefficients greater than 0.5 are shown in bold

* Statistically significant (P ≤ 0.001)