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

Botanical Studies

Table 3 Phylotypes of clones in 16S rRNA gene libraries

Phylogenetic group	Clone library (% of clones)
	Hardwood	*Calocedrus*	*Cryptomeria*
Acidobacteria	63.7a	68.5a	59.6a
Actinobacteria	1.8a	0.6a	0.0a
Bacteroidetes	0.0a	1.2a	1.2a
Chloroflexi	0.0b	1.2ab	3.7a
Firmicutes	0.0b	1.2ab	1.9ab
Nitrospira	0.6a	0.0a	0.0a
Planctomycetes	4.8a	0.0b	1.9ab
Proteobacteria	23.8a	25.6a	23.0a
α-Proteobacteria	15.5a	17.9a	11.8a
β-Proteobacteria	1.8a	0.6a	2.5a
γ-Proteobacteria	4.8a	3.0a	3.7a
δ-Proteobacteria	1.8b	4.2ab	4.3ab
Unclassified Proteobacteria	0.0a	0.0a	0.6a
Verrucomicrobia	5.4ab	1.8b	6.2a
Unclassified bacteria	0.0a	0.0a	2.5a
Total clone numbers	168	168	161

Data with the same letter in each row indicates no significant difference by LSD test at P<0.05.