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. 2017 May 9;7:1592. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-01173-w

Table 2.

Soil NO3 -N and NH4 +-N leaching at various soil depths affected by different treatments over the entire experimental period.

Treatments NO3 -N (mg L−1) NH4 +-N (mg L−1)
20 cm 60 cm 100 cm 20 cm 60 cm 100 cm
C0 12.49 ± 0.45a 14.87 ± 0.61a 18.60 ± 0.12a 11.84 ± 0.46a 6.29 ± 0.13a 4.40 ± 0.20a
C1 11.56 ± 0.06a 15.73 ± 0.19a 15.21 ± 0.29b 12.10 ± 0.38a 4.76 ± 0.24b 3.15 ± 0.03b
C2 7.26 ± 0.48b 13.01 ± 0.82b 15.16 ± 1.14b 10.12 ± 0.27b 3.89 ± 0.20c 2.55 ± 0.11c
C3 6.87 ± 0.33b 11.25 ± 0.56b 13.76 ± 0.17b 9.77 ± 0.46b 3.54 ± 0.28c 2.11 ± 0.19c
ANOVA results
 Period <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
 Treatment <0.001 0.003 0.003 0.007 <0.001 <0.001
 Period × Treatment <0.001 <0.001 0.843 0.001 <0.001 <0.001

Data are mean ± SE. Lowercase letter in the same column represents significant differences among experimental treatments at the level of 0.05.