Table 3 Analysis of variance for the soil carbon storage at two depths 0–20 and 20–40 cm for the different forest species grown under four planting spacings

Planting spacing (P)

Soil depth (S)

P*S

R ²

CV

93.31*

1496.18*

33.61^ns

0.47

16.06

Planting spacing (P)

Soil Depth (S)

P*S

R ²

CV

143.94^ns

1595.36*

36.89^ns

0.41

19.25

Planting spacing (P)

Soil depth (S)

P*S^ns

R ²

CV

130.56 ^ns

1723.73*

5.58

0.51

17.28