Table 3 Mantel correlations between bacterial community structure and soil chemical properties.

From: Long term repeated fire disturbance alters soil bacterial diversity but not the abundance in an Australian wet sclerophyll forest

variables

Bray-Curtis

OTU

dominated OTU*

TC

0.1349(0.105)

0.08597(0.182)

TN

0.1902(0.051)

0.1561(0.067)

Pi

−0.0065(0.456)

−0.04065(0.653)

CN

0.1465(0.084)

0.1221(0.117)

Moisture

0.1295(0.086)

0.07442(0.204)

DOC

0.3069(0.0006)

0.252(0.003)

DON

0.2476(0.0019)

0.2243(0.009)

pH

0.321(0.0002)

0.3408(0.001)

EC

0.1913(0.0457)

0.2493(0.009)

NO3−

0.0326(0.3675)

0.08704(0.189)

NH4+

0.2105(0.0254)

0.1933(0.033)

MBC

0.1175(0.1413)

0.09893(0.174)

MBN

−0.0196(0.5588)

−0.04852(0.701)

  1. Bacterial community structure was generated from Bray-Curtis (OTU-based) dissimilarity matrices using R with Vegan package. The significances (the number in brackets) are tested on 999 permutations. In order to minimize the rare species for OTUs, we also generated a Bray-Curtis dissimilarity matrix with dominated OTU with the total relative abundance over 0.1% (the first 66 OTUs). Euclidean distances matrix were used for soil chemical properties. Bold values indicate a significant difference at P < 0.05. For abbreviations for soil chemical properties refer to Table 1.
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