Research Article

Changes in Land Use System and Environmental Factors Affect Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Density and Diversity, and Enzyme Activities in Rhizospheric Soils of Acacia senegal (L.) Willd.

Table 3

Enzyme activities of soils from Dahra and Goudiry sampled during the dry season.

Sites Soil originsEnzyme activities
FDADehydrogenaseAcid phosphataseAlkaline phosphatase
( 𝜇 g FDA/h/g of soil)( 𝜇 g INTF/h/g of soil)( 𝜇 g pNPP/h/g of soil)( 𝜇 g pNPP/h/g of soil)

Plantation0.344a0.040a67.937a1.905ab
DahraNatural population0.388a0.131b146.349b2.381b
Bulk soil0.290a0.032a86.667a1.111a

Plantation0.757a0.319b208.254a13.860a
GoudiryNatural population1.710c0.099a416.190b132.857b
Bulk soil1.179b0.094a427.619b137.460b

For each site and in each column, values followed by the same letter are not significantly different according to the Student-Newman-Keuls test ( 𝑃 < 0 . 0 5 ).