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Table III
Soil properties and foliar chemistry paired experimental plots.
| Reference | Low-density | |||||
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| Mean | SE | Mean | SE | p | ||
| Soil properties | ||||||
| Soil organic matter (%) | 14.55 | 1.08 | 14.40 | 1.64 | 0.90 | |
| Total soil carbon (%) | 8.42 | 0.74 | 7.68 | 1.00 | 0.45 | |
| Total soil nitrogen (%) | 0.36 | 0.02 | 0.31 | 0.03 | 0.14 | |
| Foliar chemistry | ||||||
| Total nitrogen (%) | ||||||
| A. uva-ursi | 1.25 | 0.02 | 1.18 | 0.03 | 0.18 | |
| J. communis | 1.51 | 0.06 | 1.37 | 0.03 | 0.02 | |
| R. woodsii | 1.76 | 0.11 | 1.45 | 0.13 | 0.03 | |
| Peltigera lichen | 4.26 | 0.07 | 4.22 | 0.09 | 0.70 | |
| P. engelmannii | 1.44 | 0.04 | 1.37 | 0.06 | 0.03 | |
| P. menziesii | 1.26 | 0.02 | 1.26 | 0.01 | 0.91 | |
| P. flexilis | 1.24 | 0.03 | 1.17 | 0.03 | 0.16 | |
| Total carbon:nitrogen | ||||||
| A. uva-ursi | 42.11 | 0.75 | 44.89 | 0.94 | 0.14 | |
| J. communis | 34.05 | 1.40 | 38.15 | 1.09 | 0.01 | |
| R. woodsii | 26.49 | 2.06 | 32.43 | 3.19 | 0.04 | |
| Peltigera lichen | 10.30 | 0.18 | 10.39 | 0.19 | 0.76 | |
| P. engelmannii | 34.91 | 1.05 | 37.32 | 1.51 | 0.02 | |
| P. menziesii | 40.60 | 0.66 | 40.51 | 0.26 | 0.87 | |
| P. flexilis | 41.25 | 1.13 | 43.49 | 0.95 | 0.18 | |
| Polyphenols (% dry mass) | ||||||
| A. uva-ursi | 22.71 | 1.12 | 21.59 | 0.80 | 0.44 | |
| J. communis | 8.60 | 0.39 | 9.63 | 0.24 | < 0.01 | |
| R. woodsii | 16.06 | 0.72 | 19.49 | 0.64 | < 0.01 | |
| P. engelmannii | 7.56 | 0.17 | 7.80 | 0.32 | 0.63 | |
| P. menziesii | 6.28 | 0.21 | 6.19 | 0.19 | 0.85 | |
| P. flexilis | 7.03 | 0.58 | 7.94 | 0.31 | 0.14 | |