Table 3 Correlation analysis of soil physiochemical properties, and soil C and N fractions across different land use types.

	Moisture	BD	pH	Salinity	SOC	SLOC	SROC	SON	SLON	SRON	WSOC	SMBC	SMBN
SOC	0.949^**	−0.402	−0.954^**	−0.069	1
SLOC	0.783^**	−0.249	−0.890^**	−0.024	0.918^**	1
SROC	0.974^**	−0.455^**	−0.927^**	−0.088	0.979^**	0.818^**	1
SON	0.924^**	−0.384	−0.976^**	−0.048	0.990^**	0.927^**	0.960^**	1
SLON	0.901^**	−0.365	−0.981^**	−0.117	0.974^**	0.921^**	0.939^**	0.994^**	1
SRON	0.939^**	−0.412	−0.921^**	−0.115	0.985^**	0.900^**	0.967^**	0.968^**	0.937^**	1
WSOC	0.860^**	−0.191	−0.847^**	−0.176	0.935^**	0.894^**	0.897^**	0.921^**	0.888^**	0.958^**	1
SMBC	0.863^**	−0.300	−0.890^**	−0.109	0.937^**	0.939^**	0.877^**	0.934^**	0.917^**	0.933^**	0.912^**	1
SMBN	0.626^**	−0.049	−0.690^**	−0.146	0.752^**	0.852^**	0.654^**	0.754^**	0.734^**	0.768^**	0.830^**	0.896^**	1
MINC	0.967^**	−0.556^*	−0.878^**	−0.208	0.955^**	0.828^**	0.960^**	0.929^**	0.908^**	0.938^**	0.851^**	0.882^**	0.649^**

^*P < 0.05; ^**P < 0.01^. WSOC: soil water-soluble organic carbon; SMBC: soil microbial biomass carbon; SMBN: soil microbial biomass nitrogen; MINC: cumulative CO₂-C mineralization. See Tables 1 and 2 for abbreviations.

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