Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Table 1 Basic soil properties in different land uses

From: Phosphorus fractions affect fungal compositions and functions under land use conversions in saline-alkali soil in northeastern China

	0–10 cm				10–20 cm
	MC	LG	AG	RG	MC	LG	AG	RG
SOC (g/kg)	7.46 ± 0.86b	10.69 ± 0.01a	10.50 ± 0.78a	11.29 ± 1.42a	3.96 ± 0.66b	7.21 ± 0.94a	7.72 ± 0.23a	7.52 ± 0.98a
TN (g/kg)	1.30 ± 0.06c	1.36 ± 0.06bc	1.53 ± 0.10ab	1.59 ± 0.08a	0.88 ± 0.12b	1.11 ± 0.10a	1.01 ± 0.06ab	1.22 ± 0.09a
AN (mg/kg)	70.35 ± 3.31b	67.46 ± 6.47b	84.90 ± 5.50a	52.27 ± 2.45c	55.30 ± 6.70a	35.59 ± 5.96b	39.17 ± 5.68b	27.25 ± 3.95b
TP (g/kg)	0.37 ± 0.04b	0.58 ± 0.05a	0.53 ± 0.08a	0.49 ± 0.06ab	0.20 ± 0.05b	0.33 ± 0.05a	0.34 ± 0.04a	0.26 ± 0.05ab
Olsen-P (mg/kg)	51.45 ± 2.80a	44.36 ± 3.33b	52.19 ± 3.84a	32.09 ± 1.09b	26.05 ± 2.78a	24.36 ± 1.72ab	21.69 ± 1.56b	27.18 ± 2.33a

Different lowercase letter indicates that there are significant differences among treatments at 0.05 level
MC maize cropland, LG Leymus chinensis grassland, AG alfalfa grassland, RG natural restored grassland. SOC soil organic carbon, TN total nitrogen, AN available nitrogen, TP total phosphorus, Olsen-P available phosphorus

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