Table 1.

Description of soil properties of the two forest types [source: Coomes et al. (2005)]

	Alluvial forest	Terrace forest
General soil properties
pH	4.92 ± 0.04	3.91 ± 0.01
Total C (g m−2)	6,563 ± 249	11,757 ± 357
F/H layer depth (cm)	0.24 ± 0.24	9.30 ± 1.61
Water in F/H layer (g g−1)	237 ± 24	412 ± 15
N
N mineralization (g m−2)	2.03 ± 0.33	1.15 ± 0.10
Total N (g m−2)	286 ± 10	307 ± 8
C:N ratio	24 ± 1	39 ± 1
P
Acid-digested P (g m−2)	48 ± 1	0.97 ± 0.01
Total P (g m−2)	87 ± 8	11 ± 0
C:P ratio	75 ± 24	1,031 ± 43
Organic:total P ratio	0.57 ± 0.04	0.92 ± 0.00
N:P ratio	5.7 ± 0.8	28.5 ± 0.8