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Table 5.

Correlations among investigated soils features and PNF bacteria OTUs with respect to lithogenic (LG), autogenic (AG) and hydrogenic (HG) soils (n = 32, p < 0.05)

Factor	OTU number
	Burkholderia			Cupriavidus			Mesorhizobium		Devosia			Rhizobium			Methylobacterium		Microvirga			Cyanobacteria
	LG	AG	HG	LG	AG	HG	LG	AG/HG	LG	AG	HG	LG	AG	HG	LG/AG	HG	LG	AG	HG	LG	AG	HG
MOIST (%)	ns	−0.462	−0.954	ns	0.215	ns	ns	0.341/ns	ns	0.109	0.963	ns	0.120	0.405	ns/-0.287	−0.963	ns	ns	0.773	ns	−0.414	−0.483
pH	−0.196	−0.538	−0.852	−0.361	−0.471	0.219	0.398	ns	0.398	ns	ns	0.548	ns	ns	ns	−0.243	0.548	ns	0.629	−0.994	−0.441	−0.466
EDC (mg kg⁻¹)	ns	−0.389	−0.657	−0.342	−0.416	ns	0.506	ns	0.506	−0.255	0.585	0.545	ns	−0.211	ns	−0.206	0.545	ns	ns	−0.972	−0.284	−0.684
EC (mS cm⁻¹)	−0.2636	0.389	−0.223	0.844	0.424	ns	0.331	ns	0.331	ns	−0.664	0.886	0.403	−0.342	ns	−0.406	0.886	ns	0.614	ns	0.263	ns
NO₂–N (mg kg⁻¹)	ns	−0.306	−0.441	0.998	−0.301	0.509	0.998	ns	0.366	ns	−0.222	0.620	ns	ns	ns	−0.262	0.620	ns	0.379	0.283	ns	−0.236
NO₃–N (mg kg⁻¹)	ns	ns	ns	0.946	0.407	−0.394	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.449	−0.360	−0.658	ns	−0.689	0.449	ns	0.536	0.427	ns	0.693
NH₄–N (mg kg⁻¹)	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.998	ns	0.316	ns	0.316	−0.407	ns	0.610	−0.293	−0.300	ns	−0.451	0.610	ns	0.453	0.294	ns	0.912

ns no significance