Research Article

Facilitative and Inhibitory Effect of Litter on Seedling Emergence and Early Growth of Six Herbaceous Species in an Early Successional Old Field Ecosystem

Figure 2

The temporal dynamic (a) and mean values (b) of soil electrical conductivity (EC), and the relationship between soil EC and soil moisture (c); the bars with mean ± SE represent mean soil temperature and moisture from 27 April 2011 to 7 June 2011; different letters indicate significant difference between treatments at .
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