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. 2016 Aug 5;6:30350. doi: 10.1038/srep30350

Table 1. The proportional contribution (%) of individual and total edaphic factor, climate, and C input on variance of CSE based on VPA method in long-term fertilization experiments at six typical croplands in China.

Category Indictors Overall Treatments
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CK NPK NPKM HH GZL HS ZZ YL QY
Edaphic factor TN 1.4** 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.4 0.9 1.6 0.1 0.2 0.1
AN 7.9** 4.7** 10.2** 1.1 7.0** 3.4 3.5 2.4 0.2 1.3
TP 3.0** 3.0* 4.8** 0.0 2.1 2.6 1.7 2.7* 0.0 0.0
AP 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.8 2.1 0.8 0.0
TK 0.6 1.2 0.0 0.4 4.6** 0.4 0.0 13.4** 0.8 0.1
AK 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 2.8 0.1 1.4 1.6
pH 0.0 1.2 0.0 1.3 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.5 5.6* 6.2*
BD 0.3 0.0 1.3 0.2 2.6* 17.5** 0.6 1.7 2.6 1.2
  Totala 11.7** 25.2** 19.4** 8.9 20.5** 29.9** 10.6 39.7** 13.2 15.0
C input SC 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.7 0.9 0.7 4.6 0.4 6.8* 0.7
MC 0.0 0.0 0.1 4.9* 0.0 0.5 4.3
TC 0.1 0.4 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.5 5.8 0.6 2.0 0.7
  Totala 0.3 0.4 0.7 1.0 0.9 7.9 7.8 0.9 7.1 5.8
Climate MAP 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.9 0.2 0.7 0.4 2.6 2.0
MAT 0.1 0.4 1.0 0.8 1.2 2.3 0.9 0.3 0.2 0.9
  Totala 0.2 0.5 1.4 0.8 1.9 2.4 1.3 0.5 3.1 2.4
Total b 22.6** 49.1** 40.5** 28.9** 41.2** 37.2* 15.9 62.6** 36.5** 24.1

Abbreviations: SC: stubble carbon input; MC: manure C input; TC: total OC input as the sum of SC plus MC. Other abbreviations were presented in Table 2. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01.

aRepresents total variance explained by single or interactive edaphic factor; brepresents total variance explained by single or interactive edaphic, C input and climate factor.