The influence of soil decompaction on earthworm count at Month 16 and 28. VM (vertical mulching); WCM (wood chip mulching); WC (white clover).
| Treatment | Month 16 | Month 28 | Month 16 | Month 28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inside canopy | Outside canopy | |||
| Control | 0.2a | 0.3a | 0.1a | 0.2a |
| VM | 0.3a | 0.3a | 0.3a | 0.3a |
| WCM | 0.5a | 0.0a | 0.4a | 0.2a |
| VM + WCM | 0.3a | 0.1a | 0.4a | 0.2a |
| VM + WCM + worms | 2.6b | 1.0b | 2.9b | 1.2b |
| VM + WC | 0.7a | 0.4a | 0.7a | 0.7ab |
| VM + WC + worms | 2.1b | 1.0b | 2.2b | 1.2b |
| Significance over time | ||||
| Month (time) | 0.559 | 0.653 | ||
| Treatment | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||
| Month (time) × treatment | 0.993 | 0.762 | ||
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.