Microbial community structure and the relationship with soil carbon and nitrogen in an original Korean pine forest of Changbai Mountain, China

Table 1 Relationships among dissimilarities of the microbial communities and environmental factors. Geographic distance was determined by Partial Mantel tests

Soil layer	Variables	Control for	Mantel statistics r	p
T	Environmental factors	Geographic distance	0.7883	0.001
T	Geographic distance	Environmental factors	0.0898	0.199
S	Environmental factors	Geographic distance	0.6038	0.001
S	Geographic distance	Environmental factors	0.1950	0.063

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