TABLE 4.

Effect of the Moso bamboo invasion on aboveground biomass (mean ± SD; N = 3 in each group) in each layer and their contribution to the total aboveground biomass.

	Forest type	Total aboveground biomass	Arborous (trees and Moso bamboo)	Shrub	Herbaceous	Moso bamboo
Biomass (g m–2)	SF	19,529.92 ± 6,190.68	19,393.52 ± 6135.53	16.72 ± 1.52a	119.68 ± 57.48	–
	TF	19,679.57 ± 675.28	19,533.55 ± 683.46	22.37 ± 8.95b	123.64 ± 30.91	3,538.63 ± 1,305.82
	MB	17,749.90 ± 4158.71	17,557.27 ± 4,112.54	56.21 ± 27.78b	136.42 ± 24.22	7,482.72 ± 2,532.43
percent (%)	SF		99.31 ± 0.09%	0.09 ± 0.03%	0.59 ± 0.12%	–
	TF		99.26 ± 0.13%	0.11 ± 0.05%	0.63 ± 0.16%	17.90 ± 6.41%
	MB		98.91 ± 0.13%	0.31 ± 0.10%	0.78 ± 0.07%	41.56 ± 8.21%

Different letters in the shrub column indicate significant differences among the forest types in the same layer at P < 0.05.