## 3 Results
### Relationships among Soil Physicochemical Properties, Microbial Biomass and Enzyme Activity
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\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline \multirow{2}{*}{**(a)**} & \multicolumn{6}{c}{**Edaphic Abiotic Factors**} \\ \cline{2-9}  & **pH** & **EC** & **BD** & **SWC** & **STC** & **SOC** & **SIC** & **Porosity** & **FC** \\ \hline BG & \(-0.421\) & \(0.260\) & \(-0.845\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.993\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.936\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.994\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(-0.171\) & \(0.886\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.992\)\({}^{\ast\ast\ast}\) \\ NAG & \(-0.574\) & \(0.350\) & \(-0.790\) & \(0.987\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.877\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.972\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(-0.296\) & \(0.906\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.967\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) \\ AKP & \(-0.476\) & \(0.276\) & \(-0.829\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.996\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.923\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.991\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(-0.204\) & \(0.900\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.989\)\({}^{\ast\ast\ast}\) \\ CBH & \(-0.575\) & \(-0.013\) & \(-0.587\) & \(0.896\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.858\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.890\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(-0.084\) & \(0.944\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.857\)\({}^{\ast}\) \\ BX & \(-0.432\) & \(0.376\) & \(-0.815\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.975\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.913\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.977\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(-0.187\) & \(0.832\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.970\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) \\ BG:NAG & \(-0.229\) & \(0.140\) & \(-0.867\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.951\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.956\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.971\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(-0.027\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.827\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.971\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) \\ BG:AKP & \(0.609\) & \(-0.311\) & \(0.731\) & \(-0.973\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(-0.873\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(-0.958\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.260\) & \(-0.913\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(-0.944\)\({}^{\ast\ast\ast}\) \\ NAG:AKP & \(0.416\) & \(-0.220\) & \(0.846\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(-0.994\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(-0.941\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(-0.995\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.154\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(-0.897\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(-0.993\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) \\ BG/(BG + AKP) & \(0.618\) & \(-0.312\) & \(0.729\) & \(-0.972\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(-0.868\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(-0.955\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.268\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(-0.914\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(-0.942\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) \\ BG/(BG + NAG) & \(-0.325\) & \(0.717\) & \(-0.872\) & \(0.977\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.948\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.986\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(-0.100\) & \(0.869\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.989\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) \\ Vector length & \(-0.226\) & \(0.121\) & \(-0.887\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.946\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.940\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.961\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(-0.048\) & \(0.826\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.970\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) \\ Vector angle & \(-0.543\) & \(0.277\) & \(-0.786\) & \(0.992\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.907\)\({}^{\ast}\) & \(0.982\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(-0.225\) & \(0.917\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) & \(0.974\)\({}^{\ast\ast}\) \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 4: [PERSON]’s correlation coefficients (r) relating soil extracellular enzymes activities, ecoenzymatic stoichiometry and vector characteristics of enzyme activity with (**a**) edaphic abiotic factors (pH, EC, BD, SWC, STC, SOC, SIC, FC) and (**b**) biotic factors (MBC, MBN, MBP, MBC: MBN, MBC: MBP, and MBN: MBP) (\(n=3\)). Figure 3: Ordination plots of the results from the redundancy analysis to identify the relationships between soil physiochemical properties (red arrows), soil microbial biomass, microbial biomass C:N:P stoichiometry, and microbial quotient (blue arrows) (\(n=3\)). The STC was highly correlated with SOC (Pearson R = 0.955), thus it was removed from this analysis (Table S2).