Seasonal Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Mangroves of Goa, India

Table 4

Pearson’s correlation coefficient (𝑟 value) between relative abundance of dominant AM fungal species and soil pH, P, and EC at the two study sites.

Ecological parameters	Terekhol site			Zuari site
	Premonsoon	Monsoon	Postmonsoon	Premonsoon	Monsoon	Postmonsoon
RA versus soil pH	0.535	0.071	0.393	0.070	0.475	0.327
RA versus P	0.423	0.475	0.417	0.429	0.563	0.311
RA versus EC	0.512	0.326	0.418	0.419	0.375	0.426

RA: relative abundance; P: soil phosphorus; EC: electrical conductivity. (𝑃≤0.05); all values are means of the composite sample of three plant species for each season.