Unraveling the diversity of sedimentary sulfate-reducing prokaryotes (SRP) across Tibetan saline lakes using epicPCR

Table 2 Simple Mantel test (Jaccard distance) of environmental factors on microbial community and SRP sub-community

	Microbial community		SRP sub-community		Highly abundant SRP populations		Lake-specific SRP populations
	r _M	P	r _M	P	r _M	P	r _M	P
pH	0.1993	0.004	0.0381	0.311	0.0529	0.24	0.0248	0.351
MMT(Aug)	0.3299	0.003	0.1314	0.044	0.1349	0.044	0.0495	0.198
TN	− 0.0869	0.759	0.3878	0.016	0.3513	0.021	0.1580	0.047
TOC	0.0805	0.224	− 0.1159	0.807	− 0.0991	0.821	− 0.0112	0.532
SO₄²⁻	0.1364	0.095	0.0802	0.205	0.0521	0.251	− 0.0349	0.660
Salinity	0.0125	0.371	− 0.0313	0.491	− 0.0858	0.771	− 0.0895	0.796

The P values of statistical significance (< 0.05) are in italics.
Abbreviation: MMT (Aug) monthly mean temperature of surface water in August, 2015, TN total nitrogen, TOC total organic carbon, SO₄²⁻ sulfate concentration

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