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Table 3 Correlations between major taxa and environmental variables based on Pearson’s product momentum correlation coefficient

From: Identification of bacterial communities in sediments of Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China

Variables	PH	SM	AFDM	TOC	TN	TP	Depth	Cu	Zn	Pb	Cd
qPCR	0.537	0.702	0.615	0.761	0.639	0.698	–	0.685	0.500	0.285	0.649
H′	0.179	0.089	−0.306	0.466	0.603	0.560	0.435	0.284	0.517	−0.339	0.303
Chao1	−0.039	0.500	−0.209	0.269	0.249	0.766	0.195	0.655	0.536	0.329	0.658

Values in italics are different from 0 with a significance level alpha = 0.05
H′, Shannon index

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