Epiphytic bacterial community composition on two common submerged macrophytes in brackish water and freshwater

BMC Microbiology

Table 1 Statistical analysis

		% Plant organic matter		Ash-free dry mass		Total bacterial cell counts		Planctomycetes		CFB
Source of variation	DF	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P
Habitat	1	101.63	<0.001	13.721	0.002	25.963	<0.001	30.970	<0.001	0.467	0.504
Plant	1	24.481	<0.001	3.746	0.071	1.944	0.182	26.623	<0.001	45.454	<0.001
Plant part (PP)	1	0.0563	0.815	0.183	0.674	21.229	<0.001	3.705	0.072	21.018	<0.001
Habitat × PP	1	3.510	0.079	0.0307	0.863	2.606	0.126	10.618	0.005	0.538	0.474
Habitat × Plant	1	5.249	0.036	2.253	0.153	10.499	0.005	0.484	0.497	4.901	0.042
Plant × PP	1	1.087	0.313	0.0479	0.830	0.0246	0.877	0.0998	0.756	7.105	0.017
Habitat × Plant × PP	1	0.505	0.488	0.121	0.732	< 0.001	0.995	1.179	0.294	14.113	0.002

3-way ANOVA for selected parameters. Data for the CFB were arcsin transformed; for planctomycetes, x^1/4 transformation was used.

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