Vertical profiles of microbial communities in perfluoroalkyl substance-contaminated soils

Annals of Microbiology

Table 4 Spearman rank correlation analysis of soil chemical parameters with the major bacterial and archaeal phyla and classes

	PFBS	PFHxS	PFOS	F53B	OC
Acidobacteria	0.6	− 0.9*	− 0.2	0.8	0
Actinobacteria	0.9*	− 0.6	− 0.3	− 0.4	0.3
Cyanobacteria	0.5	− 0.7	− 0.1	0.6	− 0.1
Chloroflexi	0	− 0.3	− 0.9*	− 0.2	− 0.9*
Proteobacteria	0.1	0.1	0.8	0.4	1.0**
Alphaproteobacteria	0.4	− 0.5	0.5	1.0**	0.7
Betaproteobacteria	− 0.4	0.5	1.0**	0.2	0.8
Gammaproteobacteria	− 0.2	0.7	0.1	− 0.8	0.1
Thaumarchaeota	0.8	− 0.7	− 0.6	− 0.4	− 0.4
Euryarchaeota	0.3	− 0.3	− 0.9*	− 0.4	− 0.9*
SCG	0.8	− 0.7	− 0.6	− 0.4	− 0.4
Thermoplasmata	0.3	− 0.3	− 0.9*	− 0.4	− 0.9*

*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level, **correlation is significant at the 0.01 level

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