ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
BIOCHAR FOR A SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT
Taxon-specific responses of soil microbial communities to different soil priming effects induced by addition
of plant residues and their biochars
Peng Su • Jun Lou • Philip C. Brookes • Yu Luo • Yan He • Jianming Xu
Received: 4 May 2015 / Accepted: 6 August 2015
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Responsible editor: Jizheng He
P. Su • J. Lou • P. C. Brookes () • Y. Luo () • Y. He • J. M. Xu
Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of
Subtropical Soil and Plant Nutrition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
() Corresponding authors:
Philip C. Brookes
e-mail: supervtu@163.com
and
Yu Luo
e-mail: luoyu21@163.com
Supplementary material
Fig. S1
Venn diagram of operational taxonomic unit numbers of bacteria, fungi and archaea in all treatments
S – control soil; SF and SB - soil amended with maize feedstock and biochar, respectively
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Fig. S2
Heat maps of cluster analysis of treatments based on the relative abundances of the top operational taxonomic unit numbers (OTUs, i.e. relative abundance > 1 % at
genus level) identified in soil samples in the bacterial (a), fungal (b) and archaeal (c) data sets, respectively
Cluster analysis successfully grouped OTUs that showed similar abundances in soil samples. Color blocks represent the abundances of genera for each sample, reflecting the
similarity degree among treatments