Table 1. The significance level of effects of Moso bamboo growth stage on foliar stoichiometry under different treatments (n = 3, df = 1).
| Treatment | N |
P |
N:P |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | Sig. | F | Sig. | F | Sig. | |
| CM | ||||||
| Control | 343.6 | *** | 48.6 | ** | 80 | ** |
| N30 | 410.6 | *** | 7.4 | ns | 81.1 | ** |
| N60 | 118.7 | *** | 24.7 | ** | 2.1 | ns |
| N90 | 32.9 | ** | 9.3 | * | 3.5 | ns |
| IM | ||||||
| Control | 6225.2 | *** | 0.481 | ns | 115.5 | *** |
| N30 | 392.1 | *** | 17.7 | * | 49.2 | ** |
| N60 | 240.8 | *** | 0.05 | ns | 716.8 | *** |
| N90 | 523.8 | *** | 22.8 | ** | 76.9 | ** |
CM: conventional management; IM: intensive management; N: nitrogen; P: phosphorus. Asterisks indicate that the young bamboo foliar N and P concentrations and N:P ratios are significantly larger than those of mature bamboo (*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001). ns, no significance.