Table 4 Pearson’s coefficients correlation between soil variables, land use and depth.

From: Effects of land use change from natural forest to plantation on C, N and natural abundance of 13C and 15N along a climate gradient in eastern China

 

C

N

C/N

13C

15N

C

/

0.879**

0.641**

−0.491**

−0.207**

N

0.879**

/

0.262**

−0.308**

−0.045

C/N

0.641**

0.262**

/

−0.606**

−0.377**

13C

−0.491**

−0.308**

−0.606**

/

0.369**

15N

−0.207**

−0,045

−0.377**

0.369**

/

LU

−0.073

−0.041

−0.074

0.304**

0.236**

Depth

−0.663**

−0.610**

−0.553**

0.355**

0.226**

  1. *Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
  2. **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
  3. n.s (not significant), n = 216, n = 108 (age), LU (land use), MAP (mean annual precipitation), MAT (mean annual temperature).
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