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Table 5.

The relationship between community dissimilarity and the environmental distance or geographic distance using Mantel and partial Mantel tests.

Effects of	Controlling for	Bacteria			Fungi
		d_BC	d_BC-bal	d_BC-gra	d_BC	d_BC-bal	d_BC-gra
Environmental distance		0.636***	0.628***	-0.091^NS	0.621***	0.552***	0.032^NS
Geographic distance		0.221***	0.209***	0.027^NS	0.428***	0.415***	-0.032^NS
Environmental distance	Geographic distance	0.612***	0.606***	-0.104^NS	0.568***	0.489***	0.045^NS
Geographic distance	Environmental distance	0.032	0.019	0.058^NS	0.316^∗∗∗	0.308^∗∗∗	-0.041^NS

d_BC, β-diversity; d_BC-bal, replacement component; d_BC-gra, nestedness component. ^∗P < 0.01, ^∗∗P < 0.001, and ^∗∗∗P < 0.0001; NS P > 0.05. Values in bold highlight the different response of bacterial and fungal communities to geographic distance.