Table 3.
Outputs of one-way ANOVA for comparison of soil physical, chemical, and biological properties, and community diversity indices of plants and AMF under fire treatment with different fire frequency (two fires occurred, one fire occurred, control site). BD: bulk density; TNV: total neutralizing value; EC: electrical conductivity; pH: soil acidity; N: total nitrogen; P: available phosphorus; MBC: microbial biomass carbon; SR: basal soil respiration; SIR: substrate-induced respiration; SOM: soil organic matter (greyed: significant p-values).
| Soil Physics | Soil Chemistry | Soil Biology | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Property | F | p | Property | F | p | Property | F | p |
| BD | 29.134 | <0.001 | TNV | 1.818 | 0.192 | MBC | 6.029 | 0.010 |
| Sand | 0.779 | 0.475 | pH | 4.009 | 0.037 | SR | 9.294 | 0.002 |
| Silt | 0.292 | 0.751 | EC | 10.013 | 0.001 | SIR | 7.586 | 0.004 |
| Clay | 1.240 | 0.314 | N | 4.791 | 0.022 | Urease | 7.444 | 0.005 |
| P | 1.378 | 0.279 | SOM | 4.710 | 0.024 | |||
| Plant community diversity | AMF community diversity | |||||||
| Index | F | p | Index | F | p | |||
| Richness | 6.26 | 0.009 | Richness | 2.234 | 0.138 | |||
| Simpson | 6.846 | 0.007 | Simpson | 0.892 | 0.428 | |||
| Shannon | 6.846 | 0.007 | Shannon | 5.984 | 0.011 | |||
| Evenness | 0.357 | 0.705 | Evenness | 0.942 | 0.409 | |||