Table 3 Correlation analysis between soil active organic carbon and enzyme activities.

From: The interplay of labile organic carbon, enzyme activities and microbial communities of two forest soils across seasons

 

CBH

βX

βG

Pa

MBC

0.795**

0.834**

0.891**

EOC

0.693*

0.705*

0.556

DOC

0.725**

0.805**

0.689*

Ba

MBC

0.787**

0.866**

0.888**

EOC

0.967**

0.943**

0.667*

DOC

0.896**

0.912**

0.713**

  1. *Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level, **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level; Pa: Picea asperata Mast.; Ba: Betula albosinensis; MBC: microbial biomass carbon, EOC: easily oxidized organic carbon, DOC: dissolved organic carbon; SOC: soil organic carbon; CBH: Cellobiohydrolase, βG: β-1,4-glucosidase, βX: β-1,4-xylosidase (data in this table is analyzed by SPSS, version 20.0, 2011, SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA; software available at: https://www.ibm.com/analytics/spss-statistics-software).
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