Table 1.
Soil abiotic properties for each nature reserve.
Table 2.
Sequence results of all three nature reserves and their relative abundances, Shannon diversity indices, and observed OTUs.
Fig 1.
The acidobacterial subdivision community composition based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis for Jonkershoek, Hottentots Holland, and Kogelberg.
Table 3.
OTU classification and relative abundances between Jonkershoek, Hottentots Holland, and Kogelberg.
Fig 2.
A non-metric multidimensional scaling ordination plot, based on the Bray-Curtis distance matrix, representing the acidobacterial community compositions in various samples examined in this study.
Soil abiotic properties that had a significant correlation (p<0.05) with the acidobacterial communities are indicated with an overlaid bi-plot.
Fig 3.
Spearman correlations between acidobacterial subdivisions and soil abiotic properties.
Colour of the square indicates type of correlation (shades of blue–positive; green to dark red–negative). ‘Other’ contain subdivisions with relative abundances below 1%. SD1 Unclassified and SD3 Unclassified contain Acidobacteriota OTUs with no taxonomic classification at genus level. EC–exchangeable cations, bs–base saturation.