Table 4.

Mantel test results correlating microbial functional gene community structure based on Geochip 5.0 found 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 with soil physicochemical properties, soil temperature measurements and taxonomic properties of bacterial and fungal communities.

	R2	p-value
Soil physicochemical properties
pH	0.5344	0.0017
EC1	0.5048	0.0015
SOM2	0.6596	0.0024
TOC3	0.6603	0.0023
N	0.4514	0.0031
NH4 +-N	0.1820	0.0610
NO3 −-N	0.4617	0.0021
C/N	0.3154	0.0059
P	0.2644	0.0155
K	0.4881	0.0014
Mg	0.1022	0.1016
Soil temperature
Mean soil temperature	0.5847	0.0013
Maximum soil temperature	0.5647	0.0007
Minium soil temperature	0.4847	0.0010
Microbial communities
Bacterial abundance	0.7011	0.0001
Bacterial richness	0.4746	0.0018
Bacterial Shannon index	0.4175	0.0048
Bacterial evenness	0.4664	0.0028
Bacterial community structure	0.4968	0.0015
Fungal abundance	0.6932	0.0001
Fungal richness	0.1330	0.1128
Fungal Shannon index	0.4259	0.0019
Fungal evenness	0.1878	0.0513
Fungal community structure	0.4424	0.0034

R² values in bold indicate statistical significance (p ≤ 0.05).

¹EC, electrical conductivity.

²SOM, soil organic matter.

³TOC, total organic carbon.