Table 4 Relative contributions of selected soil indicators to SQI under different communities.
From: Assessment of soil quality in an arid and barren mountainous of Shandong province, China
Model | Study site | Percentage of indicators (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Silt | N | P | LAP | AP | Vector length | ||
Linear-MDS-SQI | Herb | 10.11 | 28.69 | 15.18 | 0.74 | 43.66 | 1.62 |
Shrub | 17.41 | 24.52 | 3.12 | 13.37 | 32.12 | 9.46 | |
Pinus forest | 17.87 | 18.84 | 22.60 | 7.08 | 12.18 | 21.43 | |
Quercus forest | 21.38 | 3.32 | 2.86 | 27.16 | 25.96 | 19.31 | |
Mixed plantation | 32.46 | 3.45 | 16.43 | 7.64 | 0.64 | 39.39 | |
Non-linear-MDS-SQI | Herb | 10.88 | 21.06 | 17.91 | 8.09 | 23.38 | 18.68 |
Shrub | 14.16 | 19.41 | 11.52 | 17.16 | 20.17 | 17.58 | |
Pinus forest | 16.16 | 17.23 | 19.98 | 12.74 | 15.26 | 18.63 | |
Quercus forest | 19.53 | 6.15 | 11.23 | 25.00 | 19.25 | 18.84 | |
Mixed plantation | 24.10 | 6.28 | 18.49 | 13.27 | 14.31 | 23.55 | |
