Endophytic bacteria in the periglacial plant Potentilla fruticosa var. albicans are influenced by habitat type

Ecological Processes

Table 2 Key topological properties of bacterial communities in the rhizosphere soil, root endosphere, and leaf endosphere

Network properties	GTZ	MR	AM
Empirical networks
Edges	1220	1041	306
zNodes	150	163	88
Average clustering coefficient	0.55	0.61	0.54
Average path length	2.15	3.27	2.91
Modularity	0.38	0.41	0.54
Graph density	0.11	0.08	0.08
Diameter	6.86	12.57	8.99
Average degree	16.27	12.77	6.95
Random networks
Average path length	2.04 ± 0.004	2.26 ± 0.004	2.50 ± 0.014
Average clustering coefficient	0.11 ± 0.004	0.08 ± 0.004	0.08 ± 0.009
Modularity	0.19 ± 0.006	0.23 ± 0.006	0.31 ± 0.011

GTZ, MR, and AM represent the glacier terminus zone, moraine ridge, and alpine meadow, respectively