Table 3. Effects of soil biota community (SB, SEG 33 and SEG 37), Agriotes training (AP1, Agriotes presence in phase 1, untrained and trained) and Agriotes presence (AP2, without and with) on plant and AMF parameters in phase 2.

	SB		AP1		AP2		SB X AP1		SB x AP2		AP1 x AP2		SB x AP1 x AP2
	df:1		df:1		df:1		df:1		df:1		df:1		df:1
	F	p	F	p	F	p	F	p	F	p	F	p	F	p
Shannon's H	22.17	***	0.04	ns	2.30	ns	0.44	ns	0.04	ns	0.44	ns	0.02	ns
Plant biomass total	1.90	ns	5.26	*	0.31	ns	0.20	ns	1.03	ns	2.11	ns	0.59	ns
Root biomass total	4.42	*	3.14	ns	0.01	ns	0.34	ns	0.46	ns	2.58	ns	1.06	ns
Shoot biomass total	0.02	ns	3.98	0.05	0.84	ns	0.02	ns	0.45	ns	0.04	ns	0.02	ns
Shoot biomass
A. millefolium	2.31	ns	2.26	ns	0.02	ns	4.76	*	0.42	ns	3.77	0.06	3.66	0.06
P. lanceolata	3.64	ns	0.05	ns	7.81	**	1.40	ns	2.14	ns	0.35	ns	0.64	ns
T. officinale	3.15	ns	5.32	*	0.92	ns	3.39	ns	0.12	ns	1.01	ns	0.04	ns
H. lanatus	2.90	ns	3.24	ns	3.62	ns	0.25	ns	1.17	ns	0.16	ns	0.54	ns
P. pratensis	28.51	***	0.48	ns	1.74	ns	0.13	ns	0.01	ns	0.00	ns	0.13	ns
T. repens	8.14	**	4.51	*	0.10	ns	0.43	ns	2.21	ns	4.98	*	0.06	ns
LEH	0.00	ns	0.97	ns	0.02	ns	7.12	*	4.89	*	0.67	ns	0.00	ns
AMF community in soil	7.93	**	0.99	ns	−0.39	ns	4.99	**	3.44	*	2.57	ns	0.37	ns
No of AMF species in soil	0.41	ns	0.00	ns	0.04	ns	6.11	*	3.57	ns	0.44	ns	0.03	ns
AMF community in roots	9.30	***	0.06	ns	−0.01	ns	0.26	ns	1.93	ns	0.51	ns	0.11	ns
No of AMF species in roots	9.10	**	0.49	ns	0.74	ns	0.19	ns	0.03	ns	0.47	ns	0.42	ns
Total AMF (P. lanceolata)	15.21	**	4.98	*	0.22	ns	1.20	ns	0.09	ns	6.95	*	4.65	*
Arbuscules (P. lanceolata)	4.91	*	0.05	ns	0.03	ns	0.26	ns	5.72	*	6.40	*	0.17	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.