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Table 2 GLMM results showing effects of month and depth on relative abundance of dominant bacterial and fungal phyla

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

Bacterial phylum

Month (fixed effect)

Depth (fixed effect)

df

t1,4

p value

df

t1,2

p value

Actinobacteria

4

4.357

0.107

2

16.564

0.000

Proteobacteria

4

2.692

0.018

2

22.837

0.000

Acidobacteria

4

4.39

0.002

2

12.143

0.000

Chloroflexi

4

7.067

0.046

2

23.571

0.000

Verrucomicrobia

4

6.481

0.004

2

4.464

0.001

Gemmatimonadetes

4

11.206

0.000

2

11.987

0.000

Rokubacteria

4

5.419

0.020

2

7.972

0.000

Bacteroidetes

4

4.878

0.037

2

10.093

0.000

Planctomycetes

4

7.435

0.014

2

13.84

0.000

Firmicutes

4

6.376

0.000

2

7.032

0.000

Ascomycota

4

9.658

0.001

2

3.445

0.056

Unclassified

4

8.643

0.002

2

9.465

0.000

Basidiomycota

4

10.82

0.002

2

4.817

0.001

Mortierellomycota

4

7.009

0.001

2

4.848

0.006

Unassigned

4

7.889

0.097

2

5.094

0.008

Glomeromycota

4

0.391

0.987

2

0.386

0.127

Chytridiomycota

4

3.547

0.265

2

6.439

0.001

Aphelidiomycota

4

1.913

0.878

2

0.76

0.890

Olpidiomycota

4

2.239

0.463

2

0.255

0.964

Cercozoa

4

1.686

0.981

2

1.383

0.703

  1. The effects of month and soil layer depth on relative abundances of bacterial phyla were determined by using GLMM with altered precipitation regime as the fixed factor and block as random factor. p < 0.05