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. 2020 Jan 21;8:e8384. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8384

Table 3. Results of the three-way ANOVA for the soil properties crossing plant growing seasons in 2017.

Tre: two Treatments; Sea: five sampling seasons; Dep: five soil depths, 10 cm for each soil layer.

Fixed factors SOC STN Moisture pH MBC MBN MBC/MBN DOC DON DOC/DON
Df F p F p F p F p F p F p F p F p F p F p
Tre 1 1.217 ns 0.398 ns 20.854 <0.01 43.338 <0.01 20.517 <0.01 25.176 <0.01
<0.01
<0.01
11.902
1.852
0.653
<0.01 12.65 <0.01 25.258 <0.01 43.718 <0.01
<0.01
Sea 4 2.597 0.041 1.013 ns 0.325 ns 0.462 ns 1.093 ns 26.278 ns 1.613 ns 0.117 ns 17.112
Dep 4 1.050 ns
<0.01
9.295 <0.01 0.087 ns 1.365 ns 0.204 ns 4.289 ns 1.623 ns
<0.01
0.058 ns 2.563 0.043
<0.01
Sea × Tre 4 6.668 0.626 ns 0.323 ns 1.406 ns 1.137 ns 3.155 0.017 1.852 ns 3.720 0.022 ns 4.202
Dep × Tre 4 3.359 0.013 0.086 ns 0.166 ns 0.163 ns 0.102 ns 0.882 ns 0.653 ns 0.200 ns 0.038 ns 0.362 ns
Dep × Sea 16 1.711 0.056 0.293 ns 0.013 ns 0.146 ns 0.042 ns 0.902 ns 0.192 ns 0.055 ns <0.01 ns 0.386 ns
Dep × Sea × Tre 16 1.778 0.045 0.047 ns 0.012 ns 0.225 ns 0.042 ns 0.452 ns 0.192 ns 0.040 ns <0.01 ns 0.523 ns