. 2020 Oct 5;10:16465. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-73496-0

Table 1.

Results of one-way ANOVA comparison of numerical environmental variables between slope aspects for all studied sites.

Parameter	Wenchuan		Feihong		Shidaguan
Parameter	North (6)	South (7)	North (5)	South (7)	North (7)	South (10)
Elevation (m)	1428.33 (37.10)^a	1437.86 (53.37)^a	1931.00 (36.22)^a	1798.57 (88.77)^b	2047.14 (82.00)^a	2013.20 (51.63)^a
Degree (°)	32.83 (5.04)^a	40.00 (3.96)^b	38.00 (3.46)^a	36.57 (1.40)^a	40.00 (0.58)^a	32.45 (4.65)^b
Soil moisture—SM (%)	6.77 (2.20)^a	6.10 (0.88)^a	9.00 (0.78)^a	5.93 (1.85)^b	14.20 (1.85)^a	12.53 (2.69)^a
pH	7.93 (0.12)^a	7.93 (0.16)^a	7.20 (0.35)^a	7.39 (0.49)^a	7.51 (0.27)^a	7.44 (0.43)^a
Organic matter content—ORG (%)	9.14 (3.66)^a	4.88 (1.33)^b	23.78 (9.61)^a	5.85 (1.48)^b	13.28 (2.29)^a	7.27 (2.61)^b
Available nitrogen—NA (mg kg⁻¹)	260.87 (82.84)^a	124.15 (28.20)^b	526.45 (184.45)^a	191.27 (48.92)^b	329.79 (58.35)^a	214.51 (70.88)^b
Available phosphorus—PA (mg kg⁻¹)	1.98 (2.05)^a	0.81 (0.47)^a	5.26 (2.75)^a	6.95 (2.23)^a	4.00 (1.12)^a	3.55 (3.08)^a
Available potassium—KA (mg kg⁻¹)	188.38 (32.08)^a	95.09 (14.72)^b	161.02 (44.62)^a	114.24 (18.68)^b	182.90 (34.03)^a	111.07 (23.76)^b

Mean and standard deviation (SD) followed with different letters indicate significant differences at p < 0.05 between north and south aspects. Number of sampling plots within each slope is presented in brackets.