Table 3 Mantel tests relating to Bray Curtis distance dissimilarity matrices generated from Biolog EcoPlates, Environmental parameters, 16S pyrosequencing and GeoChip data.

From: Taxonomic and functional shifts in the beech rhizosphere microbiome across a natural soil toposequence

Mantel tests

BS

Rh

all

Environmental parameters/Phylogenetic diversity

0.887***

nc

nc

Environmental parameters/GeoChip

0.060

nc

nc

Environmental parameters/Biolog EcoPlate

0.522**

nc

nc

Phylogenetic diversity/GeoChip

0.116

0.037

0.194*

Phylogenetic diversity/Biolog EcoPlate

0.709***

0.512***

0.242**

GeoChip/Biolog EcoPlate

0.009

−0.067

0.004

  1. The significant differences are indicated with asterisks. ‘*’ means the p-value < 0.05, ‘**’ means the p-value < 0.01, ‘***’ means the p-value < 0.001. Mantel tests were performed independently for the bulk soil (BS) and rhizosphere (Rh) samples or mixed together (all). Correlation analyses including the soil parameters were only done on the BS samples, because soil parameters were only determined for the bulk soil samples. ‘nc’ means non calculated.
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