Table 1.

Test statistics (r) and associated p values (in parentheses, with bold text indicating values < 0.05) for Mantel tests examining correlations between dissimilarity in microbial communities and mass loss patterns within individual studies.

Study	Bacterial communities	Fungal communities
Baker et al. (2018)	−0.516 (0.966)	NA
Cleveland et al. (2014)	0.076 (0.368)	NA
Frossard et al. (2012)	−0.104 (0.654)	0.517 (0.006)
Glassman et al. (2018)	0.757 (0.001)	0.014 (0.389)
Li et al. (2020)	0.024 (0.297)	−0.079 (0.926)
Preston and Basiliko, (2016)	0.015 (0.377)	0.014 (0.434)

Analyses were conducted separately for bacterial and fungal communities on decomposing litter.