Habitat type and host grazing regimen influence the soil microbial diversity and communities within potential biting midge larval habitats

Table 1 Correlations between microbial (bacterial, fungal, metazoan and protistan) alpha- and beta-diversities, soil properties and presence of biting midges

Kingdom		Diversity	Culicoides	TN	TC	OM
Bacteria		Richness	− 0.19	0.39	0.39	0.38
		Shannon	− 0.26	0.28	0.37	0.3
		Evenness	− 0.22	0.13	0.24	0.16
		Beta diversity	− 0.43	0.23	0.04	0.22
Protista
	Overall	Richness	0.49	− 0.33	− 0.35	− 0.38
		Shannon	0.17	− 0.26	− 0.37	− 0.23
		Evenness	0	− 0.18	− 0.3	− 0.12
		Beta diversity	− 0.63	0.33	0.23	0.4
	Photoautotroph	Richness	0.21	− 0.1	− 0.19	− 0.22
		Shannon	− 0.03	0.12	− 0.11	0.17
		Evenness	− 0.18	0.2	− 0.04	0.31
		Beta diversity	− 0.24	0.01	0.01	0.17
	Consumer	Richness	0.52	− 0.43	− 0.39	− 0.43
		Shannon	0.38	− 0.31	− 0.28	− 0.23
		Evenness	0.15	− 0.13	− 0.13	− 0.04
		Beta diversity	− 0.67	0.37	0.26	0.39
	Parasite	Richness	0.05	0.33	0.29	0.31
		Shannon	0.42	− 0.62	− 0.65	− 0.59
		Evenness	0.39	− 0.67	− 0.68	− 0.64
		Beta diversity	− 0.48	0.12	0.06	0.21
Fungi		Richness	0.49	− 0.44	− 0.46	− 0.44
		Shannon	0.14	0.03	− 0.13	− 0.03
		Evenness	− 0.05	0.22	0.04	0.16
		Beta diversity	− 0.36	0.07	0.1	0.13
Metazoa		Richness	− 0.5	0.51	0.34	0.54
		Shannon	− 0.15	− 0.11	− 0.26	− 0.1
		Evenness	0.08	− 0.34	− 0.43	− 0.35
		Beta diversity	0.03	− 0.18	− 0.24	− 0.06

Significant Pearson correlation coefficients are shown in bold
Culicoides = presence of Culicoides spp., TN total nitrogen, TC total carbon, OM organic matter

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