Table 1 Soil and litter properties during the wet and dry seasons at three sites in subtropical China.

Seasons	Sites	Forests	Soil Index					Litter Index
Seasons	Sites	Forests	SMC (%)	STN(g/kg)	SOC(g/kg)	Soil C: N	pH_water	LS(kg/m²)	LTN(g/kg)	LOC(g/kg)	Litter C: N
Dry	ALS	CF	18.00	0.49	11.01	23.16	5.07	0.53	5.30	491.72	94.64
	ALS	BF	105.24	6.80	115.08	17.59	3.67	0.51	10.58	476.86	45.75
	DMS	CF	31.95	2.02	30.22	14.95	4.05	0.62	5.44	522.41	98.81
	DMS	BF	29.81	1.74	29.04	16.73	4.01	0.55	13.61	506.93	37.47
	DHS	CF	17.36	0.99	19.91	20.6	3.81	0.45	10.91	493.34	46.96
	DHS	BF	38.34	2.10	30.74	14.81	3.64	0.44	18.17	403.98	23.18
Wet	ALS	CF	24.12	0.83	8.54	10.30	5.01	0.46	2.56	422.64	167.37
	ALS	BF	104.53	6.05	82.53	13.62	3.94	0.43	6.66	394.42	59.69
	DMS	CF	35.78	2.45	29.67	12.03	4.03	0.53	3.76	443.64	119.42
	DMS	BF	38.90	2.88	39.59	13.74	3.92	0.45	7.63	427.12	56.82
	DHS	CF	15.37	1.34	15.38	11.12	3.80	0.47	4.91	432.71	89.59
	DHS	BF	32.80	2.47	29.61	11.98	3.63	0.52	8.51	353.83	44.47
Repeated measures ANOVA	Factors		P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
	Forest		0.00	0.00	0.00	0.17	0.00	0.17	0.00	0.00	0.00
	Season		0.04	0.00	0.01	0.03	0.64	0.03	0.00	0.00	0.00
	Forest*Season		0.32	0.00	0.54	0.78	0.06	0.78	0.00	0.89	0.00

Note: Significant effects are shown in bold, as detected by repeated measures ANOVA (df = (1, 17), n = 18) (P < 0.05).
pH_water, STN, SOC, SMC, LS, LTN, LOC, ALS, DMS, DHS, CF, and BF stand for soil pH, soil total nitrogen, soil organic carbon, soil moisture content, litter storage per square meter, litter total nitrogen and litter organic carbon, Ailaoshan Station, Damingshan Station, Dinghushan Station, coniferous forests, and broadleaved forests, respectively.

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