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Table 3 Root length colonization (%) of AMF between exclosures and open grazing lands

From: Exclosures restored the density and root colonization of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

Land use types

HC

MHC

AC

VC

Exclosure

78.4 ± 0.4a

70.1 ± 0.5a

50.3 ± 0.5a

38.1 ± 0.5a

Grazing land

55.7 ± 0.6b

47.5 ± 0.8b

35.5 ± 0.8b

23.4 ± 0.8b

  1. Means in the same column followed by same letter do not differ significantly at P < 0.05, mean ± SEM
  2. HC hyphal colonization, MHC mycorrhizal colonization, AC arbuscular colonization, VC vesicular colonization