Table 2.
Soil properties of the successional sites across the Tianshan Mountain Glacier No.1
| Soil properties | Successional age |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 a | 5 a | 17 a | 31 a | 44 a | Ref | ||
| pH | 7.57 ± 0.18a | 7.68 ± 0.12a | 7.58 ± 0.15a | 7.73 ± 0.09a | 7.88 ± 0.09a | 7.30 ± 0.08b | |
| TC | (g⋅kg-1) | 1.56 ± 0.08d | 2.15 ± 0.05c | 2.61 ± 0.04bc | 2.54 ± 0.27bc | 2.91 ± 0.12b | 14.3 ± 0.05a |
| TN | (g⋅kg-1) | 0.17 ± 0.05e | 0.31 ± 0.08b | 0.29 ± 0.04c | 0.14 ± 0.04f | 0.21 ± 0.02d | 1.11 ± 0.40a |
| TP | (g⋅kg-1) | 0.67 ± 0.10a | 0.92 ± 0.12a | 0.73 ± 0.04a | 0.73 ± 0.08a | 1.08 ± 0.10a | 0.99 ± 0.09a |
| AP | (mg⋅kg-1) | 4.30 ± 0.26d | 4.80 ± 0.11d | 3.90 ± 0.12d | 13.04 ± 1.15b | 10.21 ± 1.00c | 16.63 ± 0.85a |
| NH4+ | (mg⋅kg-1) | 0.97 ± 0.01e | 0.98 ± 0.00e | 1.34 ± 0.00b | 1.31 ± 0.01c | 1.78 ± 0.03a | 1.26 ± 0.02d |
| NO3- | (mg⋅kg-1) | 0.11 ± 0.01c | 0.16 ± 0.02bc | 0.06 ± 0.04c | 0.23 ± 0.06b | 0.27 ± 0.08b | 1.92 ± 0.08a |
TC, soil total carbion; TN, soil total nitrogen; TP, soil total phosphorus; AP, avaiabliable phosphorus. a–e: Significant differences as revealed by one-way ANOVA on ranks (p < 0.05) are indicated by different letters.