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. 2018 Nov 20;9:2711. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02711

Table 2.

The most influential factors affecting bacterial and fungal OTU community composition as determined by partial distance-based redundancy analysis (db-RDA).

Bacteria
Fungi
Total
BS
RS
Total
BS
RS
F p F p F p F p F p F p
DW leaves
DW shoot 1.58
DW root
RDMC 1.73 1.73 1.95 ∗∗ 2.13 ∗∗
Rvol 1.65
C root 1.68
N root 1.78 1.73 1.57 1.43
P root
Mg root 1.66
Ca root 1.46
K root 1.84 ∗∗ 1.38
LUI 4.91 ∗∗∗ 2.82 ∗∗ 3.22 ∗∗∗ 4.12 ∗∗∗ 2.20 ∗∗∗ 2.41 ∗∗∗
Soil pH 11.90 ∗∗∗ 6.81 ∗∗∗ 6.80 ∗∗∗ 5.38 ∗∗∗ 2.80 ∗∗∗ 3.40 ∗∗∗
Soil C/N ratio 8.57 ∗∗∗ 5.20 ∗∗∗ 5.46 ∗∗∗ 7.08 ∗∗∗ 4.03 ∗∗∗ 3.95 ∗∗∗
PAP 4.44 ∗∗∗ 2.45 ∗∗ 3.15 ∗∗∗ 3.13 ∗∗∗ 1.94 ∗∗∗ 1.68
TP 4.91 ∗∗∗ 3.56 ∗∗ 3.28 ∗∗∗ 4.72 ∗∗∗ 2.29 ∗∗∗ 2.66 ∗∗∗
Plant productivity 5.74 ∗∗∗ 3.61 ∗∗∗ 2.63 ∗∗∗ 3.97 ∗∗∗ 2.76 ∗∗∗ 2.38 ∗∗
NP richness 3.65 ∗∗∗ 2.32 ∗∗ 1.79 2.37 ∗∗∗ 1.62 ∗∗
NP cover 2.85 ∗∗∗ 1.91 2.33 ∗∗ 1.86 ∗∗

Blank fields show removed factors by model selection using ordistep function in R; DW leaf/shoot/root, dry weight leaf/shoot/root; RDMC, root dry matter content; Rvol, root volume; C root, root carbon content; N root, root nitrogen content; P root, root phosphorus content; Mg root, root magnesium content; Ca root, root calcium content; K root, root potassium content; LUI, land-use intensity index; Soil C/N ratio, soil carbon to nitrogen ratio; PAP, plant available phosphorus; TP, soil total phosphorus; Plant productivity, plant biomass per experimental plot; NP richness/cover, richness/cover of the neighboring plants; p < 0.05, ∗∗p < 0.01, ∗∗∗p < 0.001.