Annals of Microbiology

Table 2 Pearson correlations between environmental and soil characteristics and rhizosphere soil bacterial communities for the full sequence set and the two most abundant phyla

From: Bacterial community structure associated with the rhizosphere soils and roots of Stellera chamaejasme L. along a Tibetan elevation gradient

Soil properties^a	Correlation
	Total bacteria		Actinobacteria		Proteobacteria		Diversity^c		Elevation
	CC^b	p	CC	p	CC	p	CC	p	CC	p
LAT	− 0.292	0.633	0.116	0.853	− 0.088	0.888	− 0.767	0.130	0.806	0.100
LON	0.565	0.321	− 0.555	0.332	0.658	0.227	− 0.199	0.749	− 0.822	0.088
ElE	− 0.676	0.210	0.543	0.344	− 0.594	0.290	− 0.289	0.637	–	–
pH	0.053	0.933	− 0.413	0.490	0.319	0.600	− 0.638	0.247	0.464	0.431
O. C	0.531	0.357	− 0.338	0.579	0.571	0.315	− 0.394	0.512	− 0.702	0.187
T. N	0.767	0.130	− 0.610	0.275	0.662	0.223	0.279	0.650	− 0.987	0.0017
C/N	− 0.249	0.686	0.275	0.654	− 0.078	0.901	− 0.896	0.040	0.539	0.348
P	0.818	0.091	− 0.979	0.0037	0.947	0.0147	− 0.297	0.627	− 0.545	0.342
K	− 0.485	0.408	0.272	0.658	− 0.432	0.468	− 0.068	0.913	0.902	0.0362

Values in italics indicate significant correlations
^aLAT, latitude; LON, longitude; ELE, elevation; O. C, organic C; T. N, total N; C/N, C/N ratio
^bCC, correlation coefficient
^cDiversity, Shannon diversity

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