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 5

Significance level (F-values) of effects of different factors and their interactions on soil enzyme activities based on three-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).

Enzyme activitiesSitesZonesSeasonsZones × sitesZones × seasonsSites × seasonsSites × zones × seasons

FDA (μg FDA/h/g of soil)205.42***221.13***47.53***11.09**53.99***162.52***68.42***
Dehydrogenase (μg INTF/h/g of soil)433.18***261.46***1701.91***445.22***256.83***507.92***308.43***
Acid phosphatase (μg pNPP/h/g of soil)1.11ns266.08***2754.66***3.91*251.62***185.71***3.43*
Alkaline phosphatase (μg pNPP/h/g of soil)55.5***422.14***1307.31***674.78***457.23***564.61***153.71***

, **, ***, and ns indicate the level of significance at 𝑃 < 0 . 0 5 , 0.001, 0.0001, and the absence of significance, respectively.