Table 1.

Soil and foliar nutrients by forest type

		Cocos forests	PT forests
		Mean ± SE	Mean ± SE	t (df)	P
Soils
Nitrate (μg/g)		8.04 ± 2.31	100.74 ± 26.10	6.4 (57)	<0.0001**
Ammonium (μg/g)		39.59 ± 6.21	65.09 ± 5.23	3.5 (57)	0.001**
Phosphate (μg/g)		1.63 ± 0.31	6.06 ± 0.90	5.4 (54)	<0.0001**
pH		7.57 ± 0.16	6.98 ± 0.16	2.9 (41)	0.008**
%N		0.78 ± 0.13	1.32 ± 0.14	3 (46)	0.008**
%C		14.84 ± 0.58	11.19 ± 0.30	5.5 (41)	<0.0001**
Leaves
C. nucifera	%N	0.85 ± 0.02	1.00 ± 0.04	3.6 (29)	0.001**
	%P	0.25 ± 0.02	0.23 ± 0.01	0.8 (34)	0.45
P. grandis	%N	2.26 ± 0.13	2.49 ± 0.04	2.3 (6)	0.06*
	%P	0.34 ± 0.05	0.38 ± 0.02	0.7 (5)	0.50
T. argentea	%N	2.86 ± 0.02	3.56 ± 0.01	3.5 (22)	0.002**
	%P	0.39 ± 0.02	0.45 ± 0.02	1.8 (25)	0.07*
	C:N	16.13 ± 0.77	13.1 ± 0.51	3.3 (20)	0.004**

Soil nutrients are from transects in forests dominated (>75% basal area) by Cocos nucifera (Cocos forests) or by Pisonia grandis and Tournefortia argentea (PT forests). Significant results, determined using Welch’s two-sample T-tests (after subsequent Bonferroni corrections) are in marked with **; near significant results are marked with *.