Soil fertility is associated with fungal and bacterial richness, whereas pH is associated with community composition in polar soil microbial communities

By S. Siciliano, A. Palmer, T. Winsley, E. Lamb, A. Bissett, Mark V Brown, J. Dorst, Mukan Ji, B. Ferrari, P. Grogan and 2 more. 2014

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Soil organic matter availability and climate drive latitudinal patterns in bacterial diversity from tropical to cold temperate forests (2018, background): “species are drawn is determined by the pH of the environment (Siciliano et al., 2014).”
Total and active microbial communities and phoD as affected by phosphate depletion and pH in soil (2016, background): “More importantly, we could not distinguish the effect of pH from that of TOC and total N, which are both commonly correlated with pH in soil (Drenovsky et al. 2004; Lauber et al. 2008; Siciliano et al. 2014).”
Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands (2015, result): “These results suggest that soil microbial communities are limited by C in dryland soils (22, 23) and align with studies from polar regions, indicating that soil C content is a major driver of the diversity of soil bacteria and fungi (29).”
Applications of structural equation modeling (SEM) in ecological studies: an updated review (2016, methodology): “For other statistical analyses, AIC- or BIC-based models are widely recommended in ecology (Johnson and Omland 2004; Sauerbrei et al. 2007; Burnham et al. 2011, Siciliano et al. 2014).”