Comparison of soil bacterial communities in a natural hardwood forest and coniferous plantations in perhumid subtropical low mountains

Botanical Studies

Table 1 Description of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene clone libraries of forest soils used in the study

Location	Description of the forest	MAT^a	Precipitation (mm)	Reference
Wulai	Natural, low mountain hardwood forest in northern Taiwan	21.0	>4,000	This study
	Low mountain Calocedrus plantation in northern Taiwan	21.0	>4,000	This study
	Low mountain Cryptomeria plantation in northern Taiwan	21.0	>4,000	This study
Huoshaoliao	Disturbed, low mountain hardwood forest in northern Taiwan	21.0	>4,000	Lin et al. ([2011b])
Lienhuachi	Natural, low mountain hardwood forest in central Taiwan	20.8	2,200	Lin et al. ([2011c])
	Low mountain Calocedrus plantation in central Taiwan	20.8	2,200	Lin et al. ([2011c])
Yuanyang Lake	Natural, middle altitudinal Chamaecyparis forest in northeastern Taiwan	12.0	>4,000	Lin et al. ([2010])