Table 2.
Microbial biomass and PLFA diversity indices (means and standard deviation) for each land use and location
| Soil properties | Sierra de Crevillenta | Sierra del Maigmó | Puig Campana | Camara | ||||||||
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| f | a | ab | f | a | ab | f | a | ab | f | a | ab | |
| Total PLFA (nmol g−1) | 210 (57)a | 67 (24)b | 77 (16)b | 152 (53)a | 33 (8)c | 52 (9)b | 178 (82)a | 36 (16)c | 93 (15)b | 125 (38)a | 36 (13)c | 70 (14)b |
| Richness | 45 (3)a | 41 (3)b | 40 (1)b | 43 (3)a | 36 (2)c | 39 (2)b | 49 (3)a | 38 (2)b | 45 (2)a | 44 (3)a | 37 (3)c | 39 (1)b |
| Shannon index H | 3.20 (0.03) | 3.20 (0.05) | 3.12 (0.03) | 3.14 (0.05) | 3.18 (0.02) | 3.19 (0.03) | 3.16 (0.02)b | 3.27 (0.06)a | 3.12 (0.04)b | 3.16 (0.05) | 3.18 (0.03) | 3.12 (0.04) |
| Shannon Evenness E | 0.84 (0.02)b | 0.86 (0.02)a | 0.85 (0.01)a | 0.83 (0.03)c | 0.88 (0.01)a | 0.87 (0.02)b | 0.81 (0.02)b | 0.90 (0.03)a | 0.82 (0.02)b | 0.79 (0.07)c | 0.88 (0.02)a | 0.85 (0.01)b |
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Land uses: f (forest), a (agricultural) and ab (abandoned agricultural).
Separately for each location, values with different letters indicate significant differences (P<0.05) among land uses after one-way ANOVA. Values with no letter are not significantly different (P>0.05).