Table 3.

Major network characteristics of bacterial and fungal communities found at the deciduous forest site M (545–570 m asl) and the coniferous forest site R (1,724–1,737 m).

	Network properties	Site M	Site R
Empirical networks	Original number of bacterial and fungal OTUs	6880	5502
	Similarity threshold	0.900	0.900
	Total nodes	826	468
	Total links	1864	461
	Links per node	2.256	0.985
	R 2 of power law	0.923	0.937
	Average degree (avgK)	4.513	1.971
	Average clustering coefficient (avgCC)	0.162	0.097
	Average path distance (GD)	5.364	7.571
	Modularity (M)	0.675	0.925
Random networks	Average clustering coefficient (avgCC)	0.014 ± 0.002	0.003 ± 0.002
	Average path distance (GD)	4.119 ± 0.030	6.990 ± 0.298
	Modularity (M)	0.465 ± 0.004	0.836 ± 0.008