Seasonal Decomposition Rates of Broadleaf and Conifer Wood Litter in Far Eastern Tropical Forest Communities

Figure 2

The mean k value of wood samples for six months of the experiment (top row) and 12 months of the experiment (bottom row). Different lowercase letters to the left of the slash above each bar indicate inter-season intra-forest community significant differences (a and b for Karst, c and d for Lowland, and e and f for Pine), while different uppercase letters to the right of the slash above each bar indicate forest communities significant differences in the dry season (A, B, and C) and in the wet season (X, Y, and Z). The bars indicate the standard of error.