Community Structure and Biodiversity of Soil Ciliates at Dongzhaigang Mangrove Forest in Hainan Island, China

Table 8

Relationship comparison of soil ciliate abundance on physical/chemical factors between mangrove soil habitats and terrestrial soil habitats.

	Factors	Habitat in mangrove forest		Habitat in terrestrial soil of China^∗
		FS	DS
Physical factors	pH	−^a1^b	−2	+3^c
	Soil moisture	+2	+1	+1
	Salinity	+3	+3	/^d
Chemical factors	OM	+3	+4	+1
	TN	+1	+2	+2
	TP	+2	+1	+3
	SO4^2−	+4	+3	/
	TK	−5	−5	−4

^∗Data from Ning and Shen [35, 36].
^a+; positive correlation; −; negative correlation.
^bCorrelation degree (1 means the largest effect on ciliates abundance, followed 2, 3, in sequence).
^cNumber 2 is temperature.
d, no data.