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. 2015 Apr 10;81(9):3104–3114. doi: 10.1128/AEM.04042-14

TABLE 1.

Spearman's correlations (R values) between transformed environmental variables and taxonomic (Bray-Curtis distance) and phylogenetic (UniFrac distance) community compositions as determined via partial Mantel tests

Factor Taxonomic composition
Phylogenetic composition
R P R P
pH 0.725 0.001a 0.789 0.001a
TOC (mg · liter−1) 0.340 0.010b 0.328 0.016b
TFe (mg · liter−1) −0.020 0.563 −0.059 0.736
Area (km2) −0.164 0.926 −0.197 0.967
NOx (mg · liter−1) 0.223 0.076 0.187 0.077
TP (mg · liter−1) −0.115 0.783 −0.111 0.811
Conductivity (μS · cm−1) −0.114 0.862 −0.068 0.733
TN (mg · liter−1) −0.168 0.967 −0.164 0.960
a

P < 0.01.

b

P < 0.05.