Table 7.

The influence of soil decompaction on root dry weight (mg/g soil dry weight) at month 16. VM (vertical mulching); WCM (wood chip mulching); WC (white clover).

TreatmentInside canopyOutside canopy
Control0.743a0.742a
VM1.094a0.868a
WCM1.349a0.928a
VM + WCM1.576a0.777a
VM + WCM + worms1.687a1.140a
VM + WC0.962a0.638a
VM + WC + worms1.319a1.164a
Significance of treatment0.3500.414
  • Numbers within a column followed by a common letter are not significantly different based on Bonferroni-adjusted pairwise comparisons of estimated marginal means from a generalized linear model (GLM) with α = 0.05. For treatment description, see Materials and Methods