Seasonal Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Mangroves of Goa, India

Table 1

Soil physicochemical analyses of the study sites.

Soil characteristics	Premonsoon		Monsoon		Postmonsoon
	Terekhol	Zuari	Terekhol	Zuari	Terekhol	Zuari
pH	6.5±0.12	5.9±0.08	6.8±0.07	6.2±0.02	6.7±0.19	5.5±0.10
EC (dSm^−1)	4.12±1.02	8.19±1.64	4.03±1.79	8.11±1.24	4.30±1.12	8.49±1.24
OC (%)	4.79±1.12	3.61±1.29	4.01±1.37	3.01±1.02	4.45±1.41	3.12±1.06
P (g/kg)	0.17±0.02	0.13±0.01	0.16±0.04	0.14±0.06	0.13±0.01	0.11±0.01
K (g/kg)	63.23±2.12	87.96±4.12	68.14±1.96	81.28±2.12	70.34±3.16	85.12±2.12
N (g/kg)	0.54±0.06	0.73±0.03	0.57±0.04	0.79±0.03	0.61±0.02	0.81±0.05
Zn (g/kg)	0.049±0.01	0.030±0.01	0.031±0.01	0.029±0.04	0.043±0.01	0.032±0.01
Mn (g/kg)	0.042±0.04	0.029±0.04	0.033±0.04	0.021±0.04	0.037±0.04	0.026±0.04
Cu (g/kg)	0.069±0.02	0.051±0.01	0.041±0.01	0.032±0.01	0.052±0.01	0.040±0.01
Fe (g/kg)	0.189±0.06	0.621±0.02	0.112±0.04	0.511±0.07	0.143±0.08	0.563±0.03

Data presented are means of three readings at each season; ± indicates S.E.