Table 1 Redundancy analysis determining the percent variation of the bacterial, fungal and protist communities in the different compartments explained by environment and distance (PCNM). Variables which caused over 5% variation in any compartment are included in the table. Nutrients are denoted with either T (total) or A (available). Partial redundancy analysis was performed, when both PCNM and environmental variables were significant, to summarise the part of the species composition variation explained by environmental variables after removing the effects of geographic separation (environment-distance)