Ecological Archives E093-138-A3

Sydney I. Glassman and Brenda B. Casper. 2012. Biotic contexts alter metal sequestration and AMF effects on plant growth in soils polluted with heavy metals. Ecology 93:1550–1559. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/10-2135.1

Appendix C (Table C1). Mean biomass of Deschampsia flexuosa shoots (g) and roots (g) for all 18 combinations of soils, AMF treatment (AMF) and non-mycorrhizal soil microbes (MIC). 178/180 plants survived. n = number of replicates per treatment. HC = high heavy metal contaminated soil. LC = low contaminated soil. AMF and MIC were either absent (No) or originated from high or low levels of heavy metal contamination.

SOIL AMF MIC n Mean shoot
biomass
SE Mean root
biomass
SE
HC AMF High MIC High 10 0.19 0.03 0.08 0.01
HC AMF High MIC Low 10 0.23 0.03 0.15 0.08
HC AMF High No MIC 10 0.22 0.04 0.08 0.02
HC AMF Low MIC High 10 0.21 0.05 0.07 0.02
HC AMF Low MIC Low 10 0.22 0.03 0.08 0.01
HC AMF Low No MIC 9 0.21 0.04 0.09 0.02
HC No AMF MIC High 10 0.28 0.03 0.08 0.01
HC No AMF MIC Low 10 0.24 0.05 0.08 0.02
HC No AMF No MIC 10 0.18 0.04 0.07 0.01
LC AMF High MIC High 10 0.73 0.05 0.38 0.03
LC AMF High MIC Low 10 0.80 0.04 0.33 0.03
LC AMF High No MIC 10 0.66 0.08 0.24 0.06
LC AMF Low MIC High 10 0.79 0.06 0.29 0.03
LC AMF Low MIC Low 10 0.82 0.05 0.30 0.04
LC AMF Low No MIC 10 0.82 0.08 0.27 0.03
LC No AMF MIC High 10 0.65 0.05 0.30 0.03
LC No AMF MIC Low 10 0.72 0.08 0.27 0.04
LC No AMF No MIC 9 0.67 0.07 0.30 0.03

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