Table 2. Effects of soil biota community (SB, SEG 33 and SEG 37) and Agriotes presence (AP1, without and with) on plant and AMF parameters and soil CN in phase 1.

	SB		AP1		SB x AP1
	df:1		df:1		df:1
	F	p	F	p	F	p
Shannon's H	0.28	ns	0.75	ns	0.02	ns
Plant biomass total	3.10	ns	0.01	ns	0.00	ns
Root biomass total	13.00	***	1.98	ns	1.46	ns
Shoot biomass total	0.01	ns	0.61	ns	0.55	ns
Shoot biomass
A. millefolium	30.65	***	9.54	**	7.11	*
P. lanceolata	0.16	ns	9.94	**	2.57	ns
T. officinale	4.21	*	0.16	ns	0.82	ns
H. lanatus	9.66	**	0.57	ns	0.18	ns
P. pratensis	0.35	ns	1.50	ns	2.52	ns
T. repens	0.62	ns	3.10	ns	1.02	ns
LEH	22.65	***	1.68	ns	0.62	ns
AMF community in soil	14.36	**	0.16	ns	2.42	ns
No of AMF species in soil	5.77	*	0.47	ns	0.74	ns
Total AMF (P. lanceolata)	4.15	*	0.01	ns	0.10	ns
Arbuscules (P. lanceolata)	2.84	ns	0.00	ns	0.11	ns
Soil CN ratio	0.62	ns	0.01	ns	0.73	ns

significance level:

^*p<0.05,

^**p<0.01,

^***p<0.001,

ns = not significant, LEH: length of extraradical AMF hyphae, AMF: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.