Table 1.
Details of Sampling Locations.
Table 2.
Mean Values (St. Dev.) and Two-Way Analysis of Variance on Soil Nutrition Parameters from Three Sites in Central Appalachian Mountains with Invaded and Non-Invaded Locations.
Table 3.
Turnover (Percentage) of Inorganic Nitrogen (Mean, SEa) in Non-Invaded and Invaded Locations at Three Sites in Central Appalachian Mountains.
Table 4.
Alpha Diversity Metrics for Invasion, Location, and Location x Invasion in Bacteria.
Table 5.
Alpha Diversity Metrics for Invasion, Location, and Location x Invasion in Fungi.
Fig 1.
PCoA plot describing (a) un-weighted and (b) weighted Unifrac for bacteria and (c) Bray-Curtis distances for fungi in the invaded and non-invaded sites.
Each circle indicates a sample. Multivariate data analysis methods of adonis and ANOSIM were used to identify whether groups were significantly different.
Fig 2.
Taxonomic summary of the relative abundance of (a) bacterial and (b) fungal phyla in the invaded and non-invaded sites.
The taxa are arranged as per total relative abundance across all samples, with the most abundant phyla at the bottom and the least abundant phyla at the top of the y-axis. Similarly, the phylum names in the legend are arranged from the least abundant at the top to the most abundant at the bottom.
Table 6.
Genera with a Greater Relative Abundance Associated with Invasion and Determined to have a Significant Effect Based on Indicator Species Analysis (IV > 70 and p-value < 0.01).