Research Article

Community Structure of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria in Soil Treated with the Insecticide Imidacloprid

Table 4

Values of Pearson’s correlation coefficient () for correlation among measured microbial parameters.

Number-AOA-AOA-AOA-AOB-AOB-AOBPC1PC2

1
−0.776
< 0.001
1
Number0.866
< 0.001
−0.633
< 0.001
1
-AOA0.663
< 0.001
−0.414
= 0.012
0.717
< 0.001
1
-AOA0.727
< 0.001
−0.488
= 0.003
0.731
< 0.001
0.952
< 0.001
1
-AOA−0.478
= 0.003
0.357
= 0.033
−0.358
= 0.032
−0.244 
= 0.152
−0.498
= 0.002
1
-AOB0.417
= 0.011
0.016 
= 0.925
0.452
= 0.006
0.601
< 0.001
0.618
< 0.001
−0.324 
= 0.054
1
-AOB0.377
= 0.023
0.089 
= 0.607
0.436
= 0.008
0.571
< 0.001
0.587
< 0.001
−0.308 
= 0.068
0.983
< 0.001
1
-AOB0.063 
= 0.714
−0.171 
= 0.320
0.030 
= 0.861
0.087 
= 0.614
0.115 
= 0.505
−0.134 
= 0.434
0.305 
= 0.070
0.147 
= 0.391
1
PC10.867
< 0.001
−0.577
< 0.001
0.859
< 0.001
0.870
< 0.001
0.929
< 0.001
−0.549
< 0.001
0.727
< 0.001
0.688
< 0.001
0.200 
= 0.241
1
PC2−0.379
= 0.023
0.732
< 0.001
−0.266 
= 0.117
0.052 
= 0.764
0.003 
= 0.987
0.104 
= 0.546
0.659
< 0.001
0.684
< 0.001
0.193 
= 0.259
0.000 
= 1.000
1

AOA: ammonia-oxidizing archaea; AOB: ammonia-oxidizing bacteria; : Shannon-Wiener index; : richness; : evenness. The effects in bold are significant at < 0.05.