Response of Spatial Patterns of Denitrifying Bacteria Communities to Water Properties in the Stream Inlets at Dianchi Lake, China

Table 5

Correlations between abundance and parameters for denitrifying genes in the streams.

	nirK	nirS	nosZ	nirK/nirS	nosZ/(nirK + nirS)
nirK	1
NirS	0.933	1
nosZ	0.886	0.770	1
nirK/nirS	−0.011	−0. 225	−0. 1743	1
nosZ/(nirK + nirS)	0.349	0.264	0.632	−0. 396	1
DO	−0.513	−0.411	−0.420	−0.175	−0.333
pH	0.111	0.201	0.244	0.019	0.021
Temp (°C)	−0.507	−0.543	−0.459	0.357	−0.378
ORP	−0.582	−0.649	−0.525	0.272	0.337
(mg L^−1)	−0.394	−0.519	−0.449	0.665	−0.047
TN (mg L^−1)	0.709	0.698	0.676	0.008	0.426
(mg L^−1)	0.868	0.872	0.875	0.007	−0.334
TP (mg L^−1)	0.560	0.601	0.601	0.283	0.377

is significant at the 0.05 level (two-tailed); is significant at the 0.01 level (two-tailed); is significant at the 0.001 level (two-tailed).