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Published in final edited form as: New Phytol. 2021 May 20;231(2):777–790. doi: 10.1111/nph.17421

Table 1. Relationship between above-ground woody biomass of trees (m ³ ha ¹) and microbial respiration, and potential soil enzyme activities, determined for the mineral soil (0-10 cm) of a fertility gradient in a beech dominated mountain forest.

Variable	Unit	Slope	P-value	R²
Microbial respiration	g C m^-2 d^-1	(+)	0.008	0.41
Phenol oxidase	mol m^-2 h^-1	(+)	0.006	0.43
ß-Glucosidase	mmol m^-2 h^-1	(+)	0.035	0.28
Cellobiohydrolase	mmol m^-2 h^-1	(+)	0.136	0.15
ß-Xylosidase	mmol m^-2 h^-1	(+)	0.037	0.28
Leucine aminopeptidase	mmol m^-2 h^-1	(+)	0.001	0.56
N-Acetylglucosaminidase	mmol m^-2 h^-1	(+)	0.001	0.54
Acid phosphatase	mmol m^-2 h^-1	(+)	0.005	0.44

Test statistics of linear regression models are given; directions of slope coefficients are indicated (n = 16).

Table 1. Relationship between above-ground woody biomass of trees (m 3 ha 1) and microbial respiration, and potential soil enzyme activities, determined for the mineral soil (0-10 cm) of a fertility gradient in a beech dominated mountain forest.