Table 1. Correlations between Bray-Curtis distances of fungal community and spatial or environmental variables checked through a Mantel test.
Spatial variables | Environmental variables | ||||||||||
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GD | Longitude | Latitude | TBW | WD | TOC | TN | C/N | pH | Salinity | ||
Entire region | r | 0.2959 | 0.2431 | 0.3220 | 0.0976 | 0.1535 | −0.0032 | 0.0232 | 0.0647 | −0.0591 | 0.2642 |
P | 0.001* | 0.007* | 0.004* | 0.133 | 0.011* | 0.464 | 0.313 | 0.221 | 0.666 | 0.003* | |
YS | r | 0.6630 | 0.2285 | 0.6956 | 0.3355 | 0.0094 | 0.1847 | 0.0891 | 0.1228 | −0.0200 | 0.1656 |
P | 0.001* | 0.039* | 0.001* | 0.002* | 0.415 | 0.053 | 0.246 | 0.095 | 0.550 | 0.064 | |
BHS | r | 0.3665 | 0.0185 | 0.5371 | 0.1091 | −0.1256 | −0.0746 | 0.2464 | 0.2943 | −0.0550 | −0.0454 |
P | 0.028* | 0.299 | 0.016* | 0.232 | 0.672 | 0.627 | 0.121 | 0.026* | 0.552 | 0.601 |
GD = geographical distance (km), TBW = temperature of bottom water (°C), WD = water depth (m), TOC = total organic carbon (mg/g), TN = total nitrogen (mg/g), C/N = the ratio of total organic carbon to nitrogen. The asterisk indicates significance at the level of P value = 0.05.