Forest top canopy bacterial communities are influenced by elevation and host tree traits

Table 3 Discriminant bacteria families for beech and spruce, based on ALDEX2 discriminant analyses

Biomarker	Phylum	Class	Order	Family	Effect size	Relative abundance beech	Relative abundance spruce
Beech	Bacteroidota	Bacteroidia	Cytophagales	Hymenobacteraceae	− 1.93	0.2701	0.0537
Beech	Bacteroidota	Bacteroidia	Sphingobacteriales	Sphingobacteriaceae	− 1.69	0.0760	0.0232
Beech	Deinococcota	Deinococci	Deinococcales	Deinococcaceae	− 1.36	0.0025	0.0005
Beech	Proteobacteria	Alphaproteobacteria	Sphingomonadales	Sphingomonadaceae	− 1.01	0.0626	0.0596
Beech	Proteobacteria	Gammaproteobacteria	Burkholderiales	Oxalobacteraceae	− 1.03	0.0243	0.0057
Spruce	Armatimonadota	Armatimonadia	Armatimonadales	Armatimonadales	1.08	0.0038	0.0291
Spruce	Proteobacteria	Alphaproteobacteria	Caulobacterales	Caulobacteraceae	1.60	0.0034	0.0315

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