Table 1. Effects of treatment, species, and their interaction on the C, N and P concentrations and stoichiometric ratios of leaves, stems and roots of two plant species.
Treatment | Species | Treatment * Species | ||||
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F | Sig | F | Sig | F | Sig | |
Leaf C | 0.74 | 0.40 | 0.48 | 0.25 | 1.18 | 0.29 |
Stem C | 1.95 | 0.18 | 0.70 | 0.41 | 2.27 | 0.15 |
Root C | 0.20 | 0.66 | 10.69* | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.84 |
Leaf N | 30.94* | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.98 | 22.68* | 0.00 |
Stem N | 18.77* | 0.00 | 1.59 | 0.23 | 0.14 | 0.71 |
Root N | 7.90* | 0.01 | 3.53 | 0.08 | 1.10 | 0.31 |
Leaf P | 2.75 | 0.12 | 84.38* | 0.00 | 2.97 | 0.10 |
Stem P | 130.54* | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.79 | 8.15* | 0.01 |
Root P | 14.92* | 0.00 | 9.31* | 0.01 | 13.24* | 0.00 |
Leaf C:N | 18.81* | 0.00 | 0.26 | 0.62 | 31.40* | 0.00 |
Stem C:N | 11.73* | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.92 | 3.73 × 10−4 | 0.98 |
Root C:N | 1.53 | 0.23 | 9.55* | 0.01 | 0.52 | 0.48 |
Leaf C:P | 1.90 | 0.19 | 35.39* | 0.00 | 5.16* | 0.04 |
Stem C:P | 96.15* | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.83 | 6.54* | 0.02 |
Root C:P | 3.80 | 0.07 | 11.65* | 0.00 | 6.72* | 0.02 |
Leaf N:P | 7.31* | 0.02 | 82.24* | 0.00 | 5.16* | 0.04 |
Stem N:P | 18.62* | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.91 | 7.16* | 0.02 |
Root N:P | 0.52 | 0.48 | 0.46 | 0.51 | 4.98* | 0.04 |
Notes.
Treatments are control plot and grazing plot. F-values and significance levels of two-way ANOVA are shown.
P < 0.05.