TABLE 5.

Soil bacterial community analysis by PERMANOVA results based on 97% similarity OTU abundance data (square root transformed), using 999 permutations.

Treatment	Degrees of freedom	Sum of squares	Mean squares	F. model	R2	P
Soil amendments	3	0.296	0.098	4.88	0.253	0.001
Pasture	1	0.166	0.166	8.23	0.142	0.001
Soil amendment: Pasture	3	0.219	0.073	3.60	0.187	0.002
Residuals	24	0.486	0.020	0.41
Total	31	1.169	1

Treatments consisted of “Soil amendment” and “Pasture.” Significant P-values are indicated in bold.