Table 3 Soil microbial community composition as impacted by long-term manure and fertilizer treatments for 0–7.5 cm depth at soybean planting (P).

Treatments	G−		G+		Anaerobe		Actinom		AMF		Fungi		Eukaryote
	P	1MAP	P	1MAP	P	1MAP	P	1MAP	P	1MAP	P	1MAP	P	1MAP
	------------------------% ------------------------
LM^††	45.55^ns	47.91^b	15.38^ns	22.30^ns	1.79^b	2.85^ns	16.86^ba	11.86^b	3.21^c	3.36^bc	5.31^ns	4.18^ns	11.91^ns	6.44^b
MM	45.35	50.54^b	16.34	19.65	3.44^a	1.66	15.97^bc	12.54^ba	4.01^ba	5.00^ba	5.51	6.29	9.39	4.34^b
HM	45.73	51.36^b	17.44	19.13	3.12^ba	2.04	13.67^c	12.77^ba	4.15^a	5.72^a	4.93	5.41	10.97	3.59^b
MF	42.68	44.77^b	17.61	16.86	3.92^a	1.23	18.18^ba	16.25^a	3.39^c	3.41^bac	5.38	4.46	8.84	13.04^a
HF	41.32	48.63^b	23.08	18.98	3.89^a	1.52	18.31^ba	15.65^ba	3.49^bc	3.92^bac	2.72	4.92	7.20	6.38^b
CK	45.46	70.85^a	15.54	9.80	3.36^a	1.94	18.84^a	7.73^c	3.60^bac	1.70^c	5.31	2.89	7.89	5.09^b
	Analysis of Variance (P > F)
Treatment	0.9	0.001	0.06	0.07	0.05	0.3	0.009	0.006	0.04	0.04	0.2	0.07	0.3	0.004
M vs. F	0.3	0.3	0.06	0.4	0.06	0.07	0.01	0.009	0.02	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.09	0.03

^†Mean values followed by different lower letters between each treatment within each sampling time represent significant differences due to manure and inorganic fertilizer application at P < 0.05. ^††LM, low manure rate based on recommended phosphorus rate; MM, medium manure rate based on recommended nitrogen rate; HM, high manure rate based on double of the recommended nitrogen rate; MF, recommended fertilizer; HF, high fertilizer; and CK, control with no manure application. ns, no significant.

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