Table 4.
Effects of rainfall manipulation treatment (TE vs. CK), bamboo age (A) and their interactive effects on soil particulate organic carbon and mineral organic carbon in rhizosphere soil of moso bamboo plantations across the sampling period, analyzed with two-way analysis of variance.
| Effects | Rainfall treatment | Ramet ages | Treatments×ramet ages | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| d f | F | p | d f | F | p | d f | F | p | |
| Particulate organic carbon | 1 | 6.660 | 0.024 | 2 | 6.374 | 0.013 | 2 | 25.896 | 0.000 |
| Mineral organic carbon | 1 | 2.211 | 0.163 | 2 | 10.147 | 0.003 | 2 | 13.632 | 0.001 |
| Readily oxidizable carbon | 1 | 15.124 | 0.002 | 2 | 14.407 | 0.001 | 2 | 1.552 | 0.251 |
| Microbial biomass carbon | 1 | 445.246 | 0.000 | 2 | 6.227 | 0.014 | 2 | 5.059 | 0.026 |
| Soil organic carbon | 1 | 11.541 | 0.005 | 2 | 1.578 | 0.246 | 2 | 1.276 | 0.314 |
F and p values are given. The bold value meant significant difference at 0.05 level.