Table 3.

Significant Pearson’s correlation coefficients between microbial taxa and environmental parameters (P < 0.05).

Phylum or class	Tempa	pH	Moisture	EC	ORP	TN	TC	Sulfate
MT-16S
Euryarchaeota							–0.74
Thaumarchaeota			0.61
Bathyarchaeota							–0.70
Lokiarchaeota							–0.79
Actinobacteria	–0.64
Alphaproteobacteria						0.75	0.60
Betaproteobacteria						0.68
Candidate_division_WS3						–0.71
Chloroflexi						–0.83	–0.69
Elusimicrobia						–0.79	–0.62
Epsilonproteobacteria						0.79
Firmicutes						–0.60
Gammaproteobacteria						0.73
Nitrospirae	–0.65
Planctomycetes	–0.61
Verrucomicrobia		–0.69	0.84
16S rDNA amplicons
Aenigmarchaeota							–0.74
Lokiarchaeota						–0.61
Acidobacteria						–0.75
Actinobacteria						–0.77
Bacteroidetes		0.62
Betaproteobacteria		0.62
Candidate_division_OP8							–0.68
Candidate_division_WS3			0.61				–0.74	0.66
Chloroflexi						–0.58	–0.79
Deferribacteres			0.61				–0.74	0.66
Deltaproteobacteria							–0.59
Gammaproteobacteria						0.63
Gemmatimonadetes						–0.67	–0.63
Nitrospirae						–0.60
Spirochaetae			0.61				–0.74	0.66
TA06			0.61				–0.74	0.66

^aExplanations for abbreviations of environmental parameters are given in Table 1.