The Distribution Pattern of Sediment Archaea Community of the Poyang Lake, the Largest Freshwater Lake in China

Table 4

Statistical analysis of microbial communities (some rare groups were not included (clones < 5)) with water depth and sediment chemical properties.

Pearson correlation	AFDM	Water depth (m)	SM	TOC (gkg^−1)	TN (gkg^−1)	TP (gkg^−1)	C : N	N : P	pH	Cu (μgg^−1)	Zn (μgg^−1)	Pb (μgg^−1)	Cd (μgg^−1)
Taxa_S	0.528	0.355	0.881	0.328	0.088	0.276	0.040	−0.589	0.442	0.533	0.503	0.121	0.717
Shannon	0.480	0.366	0.758	0.311	0.291	0.124	−0.163	−0.289	0.661	0.326	0.538	0.013	0.492
Simpson	0.499	0.323	0.701	0.371	0.395	0.128	−0.239	−0.147	0.728	0.293	0.580	−0.005	0.429
Evenness	−0.212	0.778	0.435	−0.045	−0.064	−0.238	0.362	−0.495	0.131	−0.201	−0.065	−0.822	0.258
ACE	0.538	−0.276	−0.090	−0.011	−0.022	−0.342	−0.887	0.554	0.076	−0.274	−0.172	0.165	−0.194
Bathyarchaeota	0.833	−0.335	−0.230	0.771	0.395	0.822	−0.108	−0.104	0.373	0.834	0.665	0.671	0.714
Pacearchaeota	−0.166	0.334	0.308	0.452	0.174	0.593	0.855	−0.438	−0.132	0.484	0.315	−0.324	0.620
Methanosarcinales	−0.209	0.158	−0.321	0.349	0.412	−0.024	−0.169	0.167	0.562	−0.244	−0.029	−0.725	−0.138
Methanocellales	0.728	−0.243	0.137	0.551	0.457	−0.040	−0.510	0.317	0.624	0.042	0.192	−0.062	0.035
Methanomicrobiales	0.321	−0.289	0.602	0.798	0.495	0.799	0.277	−0.408	0.353	0.856	0.479	0.081	0.765
Methanobacteriales	−0.418	0.320	0.025	0.352	0.376	0.506	0.636	−0.205	−0.079	0.241	0.402	−0.370	0.280
Woesearchaeota	0.080	0.747	0.577	−0.083	−0.383	0.005	−0.308	−0.135	−0.338	0.186	0.355	−0.163	0.476
Thermoplasmata	0.171	−0.408	0.206	0.125	0.516	0.313	−0.089	0.238	0.548	0.285	0.396	0.644	−0.003
Thaumarchaeota	−0.060	0.719	0.409	−0.218	−0.234	−0.350	0.019	−0.475	0.148	−0.150	0.003	−0.461	0.213
Unclassified archaea	−0.268	−0.267	−0.807	−0.716	−0.545	−0.904	−0.481	0.492	−0.387	−0.869	−0.936	−0.171	−0.882

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level; correlation is significant at the 0.01 level.