Table 2.

Pearson corelationship (r) and significance valuess (P) between realtive abundances of dominant soil bacterial groups and soil organic C, total N and P contents, and moisture.

Taxon	pH		SOC		TN		TP		Moisture
	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P
Alphaproteobacteria	−0.168	0.433	−0.255	0.229	0.008	0.972	−0.568**	0.004	−0.041	0.849
Betaproteobacteria	−0.717**	<0.001	0.238	0.263	0.538**	0.007	0.071	0.742	0.04	0.853
Gammaproteobacteria	−0.544**	0.006	0.087	0.687	0.373	0.072	0.207	0.331	0.273	0.197
Deltaproteobacteria	−0.351	0.093	0.561**	0.004	0.581**	0.003	0.285	0.176	0.127	0.554
Actinobacteria	0.702**	<0.001	−0.663**	<0.001	−0.794**	<0.001	−0.643**	0.001	−0.39	0.059
Acidobacteria	−0.001	0.997	0.468*	0.021	0.28	0.185	−0.044	0.836	0.11	0.609
Planctomycetes	−0.222	0.297	0.417*	0.043	0.387	0.062	0.533**	0.007	0.204	0.34
Gemmatimonadetes	−0.007	0.974	0.506*	0.012	0.271	0.201	0.814**	<0.001	−0.055	0.797
Chloroflexi	0.561**	0.004	−0.483*	0.017	−0.610**	0.002	−0.227	0.287	−0.487*	0.016
Verrucomicrobia	−0.318	0.129	0.261	0.218	0.255	0.23	−0.105	0.624	0.035	0.871

^*P < 0. 05,

^**P < 0.01.