Table 1 General soil properties at different depths in the secondary forest, the organic tea plantation, and the convnetional tea plantation
Study Site | Depth (cm) | Particle Distribution (%) | Texture | BD (Mg m− 3) | pH | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sand | Silt | Clay | |||||
Second. Forest | 0–10 | 49.6 | 35.0 | 15.4 | L | 0.37 (0.02) | 3.5 (0.1) |
10–30 | 36.3 | 34.8 | 29.0 | L | 0.87 (0.04) | 3.7 (0.1) | |
30–50 | 33.3 | 35.4 | 31.3 | CL | 1.07 (0.03) | 3.9 (0.1) | |
Org. TP | 0–10 | 46.3 | 34.9 | 20.7 | L | 0.82 (0.11) | 3.6 (0.2) |
10–30 | 36.8 | 34.2 | 29.6 | CL | 1.00 (0.00) | 3.7 (0.0) | |
30–50 | 30.7 | 33.7 | 35.6 | CL | 1.15 (0.10) | 3.9 (0.0) | |
Conv. TP | 0–10 | 39.0 | 43.3 | 17.7 | L | 0.79 (0.07) | 3.1 (0.1) |
10–30 | 31.8 | 34.9 | 33.3 | CL | 1.10 (0.10) | 3.5 (0.3) | |
30–50 | 22.9 | 34.8 | 42.3 | CL | 1.25 (0.20) | 3.8 (0.3) | |