Table 2.
General linear model results for the effects of warming and altered precipitation on soil physicochemical properties and soil microbial communities.
| Treatment | warming | precipitation | Warming × precipitation | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | p | F | p | F | p | |
| SOIL BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES | ||||||
| pH | 0.12 | 0.73 | 0.69 | 0.51 | 0.19 | 0.83 |
| moisture | 10.57 | <0.01 | 54.23 | <0.01 | 2.77 | 0.08 |
| -N | 0.01 | 0.93 | 1.74 | 0.19 | 1.76 | 0.19 |
| -N | 0.9 | 0.35 | 8.82 | <0.01 | 1.64 | 0.21 |
| DOC | 3.56 | 0.07 | 0.14 | 0.87 | 0.65 | 0.53 |
| TC | 0.76 | 0.39 | 1.67 | 0.21 | 2.4 | 0.11 |
| TN | 0.17 | 0.69 | 2.24 | 0.13 | 0.28 | 0.76 |
| MICROBIAL DIVERSITY | ||||||
| Bacterial richness | 0.05 | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.45 | 0.67 | 0.52 |
| Bacterial evenness | 0.35 | 0.56 | 0.21 | 0.81 | 0.56 | 0.58 |
| Fungal richness | 0.01 | 0.91 | 1.6 | 0.23 | 1.31 | 0.29 |
| Fungal evenness | 0.11 | 0.74 | 0.89 | 0.43 | 0.43 | 0.65 |
| RELATIVE ABUNDANCE OF 15 MOST ABUNDANT LINEAGES | ||||||
| Actinobacteria | 5.06 | 0.04 | 2.92 | 0.08 | 0.11 | 0.9 |
| Alphaproteobacteria | 0.03 | 0.87 | 4.1 | 0.03 | 0.87 | 0.43 |
| Betaproteobacteria | 5.85 | 0.03 | 2.25 | 0.13 | 1.55 | 0.24 |
| Bacteroidetes | 3.31 | 0.08 | 6.78 | 0.01 | 0.74 | 0.49 |
| Acidobacteria | 0.06 | 0.81 | 3.65 | 0.04 | 1.03 | 0.38 |
| Chloroflexi | 0.43 | 0.52 | 1.42 | 0.26 | 0.08 | 0.93 |
| Deltaproteobacteria | 0.88 | 0.36 | 0.51 | 0.61 | 0.29 | 0.75 |
| Gammaproteobacteria | 1.81 | 0.19 | 5.74 | 0.01 | 2.89 | 0.08 |
| Planctomycetes | 0.8 | 0.38 | 0.59 | 0.57 | 1.59 | 0.23 |
| Firmicutes | 0.94 | 0.34 | 0.23 | 0.8 | 1.34 | 0.28 |
| Gemmatimonadetes | 0.01 | 0.93 | 0.45 | 0.65 | 0.59 | 0.57 |
| Ascomycota | 0.03 | 0.86 | 0.54 | 0.59 | 0.26 | 0.77 |
| Basidiomycota | 0.15 | 0.71 | 0.57 | 0.58 | 0.11 | 0.9 |
| Zygomycota | 0.83 | 0.37 | 0.43 | 0.66 | 0.56 | 0.58 |
| Glomeromycota | 1.38 | 0.26 | 0.28 | 0.76 | 1.51 | 0.25 |
Significant effects (p < 0.05) are given in bold.