Soil As Levels and Bioaccumulation in Suaeda salsa and Phragmites australis Wetlands of the Yellow River Estuary, China

Table 2

Correlation coefficients among As, As storage, and selected soil properties.

		Moisture	BD	Porosity	pH	Salinity	SOM	TP	TS
Suaeda salsa wetlands	As	−0.269	0.028	0.331	0.264	−0.077	−0.243	−0.110	−0.537^**
	SAsS	−0.287	0.094	0.325	0.248	−0.073	−0.257	−0.128	−0.549^**
Phragmitesaustralis	As	−0.088	0.116	0.769^**	0.344	0.110	−0.255	0.478	−0.124
wetlands	SAsS	−0.197	0.287	0.741^**	0.326	0.122	−0.325	0.474	−0.198

BD: bulk density; SOM: soil organic matter; TP: total phosphorus; TS: total sulfur.
^**Significant correlation at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).