Analysis of Herbaceous Plant Succession and Dispersal Mechanisms in Deglaciated Terrain on Mt. Yulong, China

Table 5

Kruskal-Wallis () test of soil nutrients during three succession stages in the foreland of Glacier-BS1, Mt. Yulong.

The content of soil nutrition	Earliest stage	Middle stage	Last stage	-value
The percentage of total phosphorus (TP), %	0.01 ± 0.002^a	0.02 ± 0.001^b	0.1 ± 0.014^c	157.54	0
The percentage of total potassium (TK), %	0.18 ± 0.05^a	0.23 ± 0.05^a	0.28 ± 0.09^a	2.554	0.116
The percentage of total organic carbon (TOC), %	12.13 ± 0.08^a	12.76 ± 0.13^b	37.53 ± 2^c	581.475	0
The percentage of total nitrogen (TN), %	0.02 ± 0.009^a	0.13 ± 0.035^b	1.72 ± 0.15^c	416.819	0

Data are means ± SD; values with the same letter are not significantly different (); values with different letters are significantly different ().