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Table 1 Multivariate analysis of soil properties and microbial community α-diversity index (two-way ANOVA)

From: Soil microbial community variation with time and soil depth in Eurasian Steppe (Inner Mongolia, China)

Variables

Month

Depth

Month* depth

f value

p value

f value

p value

f value

p value

pH

3.184

0.018

5.841

0.000

2.186

0.038

SOM

1.598

0.184

4.608

0.013

3.651

0.001

NO3-

4.909

0.001

120.863

0.000

1.120

0.360

NH4+

44.690

0.000

53.510

0.000

7.236

0.000

VWC

88.411

0.000

5.098

0.008

14.011

0.000

ST

141.026

0.000

21.398

0.000

25.361

0.000

Bacterial OTU richness

2.027

0.099

29.239

0.000

1.744

0.102

Bacterial ACE estimator

4.180

0.004

16.832

0.000

1.700

0.112

Bacterial Chao1 estimator

3.025

0.023

6.511

0.002

1.427

0.199

Bacterial Simpson index

1.239

0.302

3.590

0.032

1.232

0.293

Bacterial shannon index

0.831

0.509

67.406

0.000

1.162

0.333

Fungal OTU richness

1.157

0.337

72.667

0.000

0.603

0.773

Fungal ACE estimator

1.135

0.347

17.069

0.000

0.399

0.918

Fungal Chao1 estimator

1.274

0.288

29.850

0.000

0.398

0.918

Fungal Simpson index

0.258

0.904

22.016

0.000

1.173

0.327

Fungal Shannon index

5.841

0.000

2.564

0.084

3.257

0.003

  1. f value is the value of F test, p value significance level, p < 0.05 means significance, p < 0.01 means extremely significant