Transition of Ethiopian highland forests to agriculture-dominated landscapes shifts the soil microbial community composition

Table 5 Goodness-of-fit statistics (R²) of environmental variables fitted to the nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination of bacterial and fungal communities

Soil attributes	Bacterial communities		Fungal communities
Soil attributes	R ²	P value	R ²	P value
AMF spore density (AMF-SD)	0.412	0.002**	0.128	0.299
Soil aggregate stability (SAS)	0.270	0.038*	0.064	0.642
Soil pH (pH)	0.287	0.029*	0.079	0.537
Molybdate-reactive bicarbonate-extractable P (Labile P)	0.414	0.003**	0.486	0.004**
Molybdate-reactive hydroxide-extractable P (moderately labile P)	0.192	0.127	0.279	0.042*
Soil organic carbon (C)	0.644	0.001***	0.393	0.010**
Total soil nitrogen (N)	0.660	0.001***	0.408	0.008**

Significant factors (P < 0.05) are indicated in italic: *P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001

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