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 activities
Sites
Zones
Seasons
Zones sites
Zones seasons
Sites seasons
Sites 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)
1.11ns
266.08***
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 , 0.001, 0.0001, and the absence of significance, respectively.