Effects of frequent fire and mowing on resprouting shrubs of Florida scrub, USA

Fire Ecology

Table 7 Effects of 2011 soil variables on biomass (ln) one and two years after treatments, for data collected at Archbold Biological Station, Venus, Florida, USA, from 2005 to 2014. n = 231 and n = 214 for one and two years, respectively. B = slope, SE = standard error, Beta = standardized coefficient, t = student’s t test

Time	Variable	B	SE	Beta	t	P
One year	Constant	1.948	2.272		0.857	0.392
	Soil moisture (ln)	0.272	0.334	0.120	0.812	0.418
	pH	0.087	0.464	0.029	0.187	0.852
	Organic matter (%)	−0.128	0.171	−0.116	−0.748	0.455
	Total inorganic N (ln)	0.395	0.297	0.162	1.329	0.185
	PO₄³⁻ (ln)	−0.070	0.227	−0.032	−0.307	0.759
Two years	Constant	0.791	2.393		0.330	0.741
	Soil moisture (ln)	0.330	0.349	0.145	0.946	0.345
	pH	0.414	0.485	0.135	0.853	0.395
	Organic matter (%)	−0.146	0.187	−0.130	−0.780	0.436
	Total inorganic N (ln)	0.454	0.316	0.188	1.437	0.152
	PO₄³⁻ (ln)	−0.165	0.236	−0.077	−0.699	0.485