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. 2016 May 31;6:26880. doi: 10.1038/srep26880

Table 3. Pearson correlation coefficients between soil microbial respiration and microbial biomass across the communities.

  Total PLFAs Bacterial PLFAs Fungal PLFAs Gram+ bacterial PLFAs Gram bacterial PLFAs AMF PLFAs Actinomycete PLFAs Monounsaturated PLFAs Branched PLFAs SSC PLFAs
CMR at 25 °C 0.811** 0.808** 0.748** 0.813** 0.800** 0.686** 0.729** 0.770** 0.813** 0.813**
CMR at 35 °C 0.817** 0.815** 0.735** 0.824** 0.812** 0.676** 0.772** 0.769** 0.832** 0.800**
MRP at 25 °C 0.210 0.201 0.184 0.236 0.191 0.091 0.291 0.148 0.258 0.217
MRP at 35 °C 0.249 0.241 0.200 0.283 0.234 0.112 0.370* 0.176 0.315* 0.234
qCO2 at 25 °C 0.486** 0.471** 0.419** 0.495** 0.465** 0.434** 0.453** 0.440** 0.491** 0.508**
qCO2 at 35 °C 0.510** 0.498** 0.425** 0.527** 0.494** 0.444** 0.511** 0.456** 0.531** 0.515**
Q10 value 0.128 0.133 0.056 0.151 0.146 0.060 0.253 0.097 0.180 0.058

*P < 0.05; **P < 0.01. MRP: microbial respiration: total PLFAs ratio; qCO2: respiration quotient; See Table 2 for abbreviations.