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Table 1 Spearman’s rank correlations of SOC-decomposing enzyme activities with bacterial and fungal abundances

From: Grazing-induced microbiome alterations drive soil organic carbon turnover and productivity in meadow steppe

 

Labile-SOC decomposition → recalcitrant-SOC decomposition

Invertase

Maltase

Amylase

β-glucosidase

Xylanase

Cellulase

Pectinesterase

Bacterial abundance (lg)

0.600 (< 0.001)

0.657 (< 0.001)

0.597 (0.019)

0.628 (0.021)

0.257 (0.035)

0.227 (n.s.)

0.262 (n.s.)

Fungal abundance (lg)

0.038 (n.s.)

0.167 (n.s.)

0.286 (n.s.)

0.585 (0.015)

0.742 (< 0.001)

0.659 (0.009)

0.757 (< 0.001)

  1. lg log10 transformation, n.s. not significant