Extended Data Fig. 5: The effects of microbial inoculants on soil microbial community.
a, bacterial community structure; b, bacterial beta diversity; c, fungal community structure; d, fungal beta diversity. Bars around the means denote 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Mean values < 0 indicate a higher value in control treatment (yellow dots), while mean values > 0 indicate a higher value in microbial inoculant treatment (blue dots). Bacteria, fungi, and AMF in front of each subgroup name represent bacterial inoculants, fungal inoculants, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) inoculants, respectively. RRStructure < 0 indicates that microbial inoculant has no effect on microbial community structure, and a greater positive value of RRStructure indicates a greater magnitude of change in the community structure. The number of observations is beside each attribute. The between-group heterogeneity (Qbetween) statistic is computed using the one-sided chi-square test. A significance level is set at Prandom < 0.05 to determine the significance of Qbetween. Differences among subgroups are deemed significant when their CIs do not overlap. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
