Table 2.
Diversity characteristics of bacterial, fungal and microbial functional gene communities determined at the deciduous forest site M (545–570 m asl) and the coniferous forest site R (1,724–1,737 m) in spring and autumn.
| Site M | Site R | p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring | Autumn | Spring | Autumn | ||
| Bacterial community | |||||
| Mean sequence number | 39831 | 32096 | 41064 | 32264 | |
| Richness | 1874 b | 1977 b | 1332 a | 1244 a | <0.0001 |
| Shannon index | 5.91 b | 6.07 b | 5.34 a | 5.28 a | <0.0001 |
| Evenness | 0.398 a | 0.388 a | 0.438 b | 0.446 b | <0.0001 |
| Chao 1 | 2577 b | 2603 b | 1917 a | 1795 a | <0.0001 |
| ACE | 2587 b | 2629 b | 2131 a | 2001 a | 0.0002 |
| Fungal community | |||||
| Mean sequence number | 59830 | 62870 | 97895 | 114843 | |
| Richness | 998 a | 1141 a | 978 a | 1004 a | 0.1240 |
| Shannon index | 3.67 ab | 4.23 b | 3.30 a | 3.43 a | 0.0009 |
| Evenness | 0.445 a | 0.447 a | 0.431 a | 0.432 a | 0.0622 |
| Chao 1 | 1490 a | 1568 a | 1433 a | 1469 a | 0.2866 |
| ACE | 1661 a | 1619 a | 1497 a | 1505 a | 0.2344 |
| Microbial functional gene community | |||||
| Richness | 14547 a | 15046 b | 15237 c | 15560 d | <0.0001 |
| Sahnnon index | 8.21 a | 8.42 b | 8.63 c | 8.93 d | <0.0001 |
| Evenness | 0.937 a | 0.936 a | 0.937 a | 0.937 a | 0.821 |
For ANOVA analyses, p-values in bold denote statistical significance (p ≤ 0.05); for Tukey’s HSD tests, mean values followed by different letters are significantly different (p ≤ 0.05).