Table 2 Summary of activation energy (Ea).

From: Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

Taxonomic groups

Taxonomic resolution (%)

Individual samples*

Pooled richness per site †

  

r 2

E a

r 2

E a

Bacteria (16S)

97

0.420

0.184

0.727

0.249

 

99

0.337

0.175

0.689

0.237

Fungi (ITS)

95

0.323

0.134

0.946

0.248

 

97

0.419

0.169

0.918

0.230

N fixers (nifH)

95

0.613

0.411

0.716

0.288

 

97

0.651

0.467

0.796

0.427

  1. *Theoretical OTUs were estimated based on individual samples (126 samples) using Chao 1 estimator. Linear regressions were performed between natural log-transformed theoretical taxon richness and the reciprocal temperature (1/kT).
  2. †Theoretical OTUs were estimated based on individual sites by pooling all sequence reads together from 21 samples, and then Chao 1 estimators for individual sites were derived from all of the pooled sequence reads.
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