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. 2019 May 20;7:77. doi: 10.1186/s40168-019-0693-7

Table 1.

The keystone taxa in the bacterial and fungal networks under non-amended and biochar-amended treatments

Network OTU ID Module Degree Cluster coefficient Abundance (%)a Phylum/class Affiliation Z b P b Diversity Carbohydrate qCO2
Field SIP incubation
Bacteria
 Non-amended OTU2131 Module I 8 0.22 0.25 1.15 Alphaproteobacteria Sphingomonas 2.67 0.22  0.357 0.627* 0.602*
 Biochar-amended OTU717 Module I 8 0.23 0.20 12.39 Actinobacteria Arthrobacter 3.12 0 0.798***  0.879***  0.756**
OTU316 Module II 9 0.29 0.09 0.18 Gemmatimonadetes Gemmatimonadaceae 2.95 0.19 0.617*  0.841***  0.789***
Fungi
 Non-amended OTU148 Module II 6 0.35 0.05 5.44 Eurotiomycetes Aspergillus 2.53 0  0.479 0.763** 0.762**
 Biochar-amended OTU430 Module II 7 0.57 0.26 0.09 Sordariomycetes Chaetomium 2.57 0 0.832*** − 0.722**  0.654**
OTU516 Module II 7 0.62 0.14 7.14 Eurotiomycetes Penicillium 2.57 0 0.609* − 0.722**  0.642**

qCO2, soil metabolic quotient. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001.

aAbundance of keystone species in the field experiment and stable isotope probing (SIP) microcosms

bThe topological role of each node is determined based on two properties: the within-module connectivity Z and the among-module connectivity P