Ecological Archives C006-105-A3

Ekananda Paudel, Gbadamassi G. O. Dossa, Marleen D. de Blécourt, Philip Beckschäfer, Jianchu Xu, and Rhett D. Harrison. 2015. Quantifying the factors affecting leaf litter decomposition across a tropical forest disturbance gradient. Ecosphere 6:267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/es15-00112.1

Appendix C. Soil properties.

Table C1. Summary of the soil properties of the study site (the data was collected at sub-plot level, n = 140).

Properties

Mature forest

Regenerating forest

Open land

Total

Min

Max

Min

Max

Min

Max

Mean±SD

C

12.51

171.54

9.84

94.68

23.38

69.21

53.19±23.75

 N

1.01

8.31

0.80

6.15

1.69

4.72

3.53 ±1.20

 C.N

11.19

20.65

9.49

18.29

11.88

18.91

14.75±2.06

 P

0.18

2.89

0.20

1.36

0.41

1.23

0.66±0.32

 K

1.13

38.51

0.09

26.71

0.49

18.70

8.51±6.66

 Ca

0.19

4.15

0.14

10.29

0.38

2.98

0.90±1.04

 Fe

9.02

163.08

8.44

136.52

19.48

130.18

45.03±30.85

Mn

0.08

1.40

0.10

2.15

0.21

3.06

0.56±0.56

pH_H2O

3.22

5.58

4.31

6.09

4.40

5.74

4.73±0.45

Sand

12.93

66.92

14.10

64.82

17.95

65.87

39.13±12.75

CLAY

14.78

56.75

15.41

48.24

12.02

48.34

27.81±8.69

SILT

13.23

56.34

15.18

52.12

12.61

45.63

33.06±8.55


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