Table 1.

Environmental characteristics of rhizosphere sediment samples (n = 6) from the three mangrove species (expressed as mean value and standard error, SE).

	R. apiculata	A. marina	C. tagal
TC (mg/g)	57.50 ± 6.30	19.10 ± 1.88	23.27 ± 4.00
TN (mg/g)	2.83 ± 0.46	1.34 ± 0.18	1.36 ± 0.25
TP (mg/g)	0.35 ± 0.02	0.17 ± 0.02	0.30 ± 0.06
AK (mg/g)	0.61 ± 0.07	0.33 ± 0.04	0.31 ± 0.03
C/N	21.32 ± 1.31	14.60 ± 0.57	17.67 ± 1.08
N/P	7.84 ± 0.79	8.05 ± 0.57	4.63 ± 0.10