Properties of Arboreal Ant and Ground-Termite Nests in relation to Their Nesting Sites and Location in a Tropical-Derived Savanna

Table 2

Main effect of soil locations on the mean available water capacity (AWC), dispersion ratio (DR), calgon and water dispersed clay, clay/silt, and silt of different soil locations.

Soil location	AWC^1  (%)	DR	Calgon dispersed			Water dispersed
			Clay	Clay + silt	Silt	Clay	Clay + silt	silt
Adjacent soil	36.0a	0.69a	9.3a	19.4a	8.8a	9.5a	12.7a	3.3a
Biogenic structures	53.8b	0.89a	19.2b	36.5b	15.9b	22.1b	32.8i	7.7a
𝑡-value	961.23	6.07	39.68	108.0	87.6	287.41	164.28	480.00
d.f.	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
𝑃 value	<0.001	0.220	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001

AWC: available water capacity and DR: dispersion ratio.
¹Results of angular transformed data presented in the original scale.
Values within a column followed by the same letter are not significantly different.