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. 2019 Mar 26;10:588. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00588

Table 3.

Correlation between microbial communities and environmental factors.

Environment factors Bacteria Fungi


R p R p
pH 0.2280 0.022* 0.3113 0.012*
SOM 0.2119 0.023* 0.3233 0.003**
N -0.0871 0.669 0.0077 0.347
P 0.1904 0.070 -0.1594 0.908

Correlations between microbial communities and environmental factors were calculated using the Mantel test based on the Bray–Curtis distance algorithm (999 permutations). The degree of correlation is shown as the R and p-value. Significance level: p ≤ 0.05; ∗∗p ≤ 0.01.