Table 2. Ordination (nMDS) results illustrating the effects of environmental gradients on MOTU composition across four land-use types.

	NMDS1	NMDS2	r2	Pr(>r)
Distance between pairs	0.96	−0.26	0.23	0.000	***
Elevation	−0.97	0.23	0.86	0.000	***
Slope	−0.33	−0.94	0.14	0.006	**
Litter thickness	−0.51	−0.85	0.53	0.000	***
Topography	−0.47	−0.88	0.04	0.219
Canopy	−0.27	0.96	0.59	0.000	***
Total Carbon	−0.58	−0.81	0.11	0.026	*
Total Nitrogen	0.34	0.93	0.09	0.056	.
Total Phosphorus	−0.02	0.99	0.20	0.001	**
Total Potassium	0.41	0.90	0.03	0.359
Tannin content	−0.63	−0.76	0.07	0.101
Coarse fiber content	−0.02	−0.99	0.35	0.000	***
Lignin content	−0.52	−0.85	0.10	0.023	*

Significant codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1. Number of permutations: 1000.