Table 3 Within and between variations of carbon pools (Mg ha⁻¹) across the differently aged jhum. The values in the parentheses are standard error of mean. The values between rows with shared superscripts are not significantly different (P < 0.01) based on pair-wise comparison

LWAGBC

1.41 (0.24)^a

3.13 (0.88)^a

6.06 (0.89)^a

16.94 (0.54)^b

30.32 (0.69)^c

146.15 (6.36)^d

0.001

LWBGBC

0.34 (0.06)^a

0.75 (0.21)^a

1.46 (0.21)^a

4.07 (0.13)^b

7.28 (0.17)^c

35.08 (1.53)^d

0.001

LNWAGBC

4.08 (0.13)^a

3.23 (0.12)^b

2.41 (0.17)^c

1.68 (0.08)^d

1.33 (0.13)^e

0.92 (0.06)^f

0.001

LNWBGBC

0.80 (0.02)^a

0.66 (0.02)^b

0.52 (0.03)^c

0.34 (0.02)^d

0.28 (0.03)^e

0.18 (0.02)^f

0.001

CDBC

0.46 (0.07)^a

0.41 (0.01)^a

0.32 (0.03)^a

0.23 (0.05)^a

0.12 (0.02)^a

2.70 (0.86)^b

0.001

LBC

0.04 (0.01)^a

0.12 (0.03)^a

0.26 (0.02)^a

0.53 (0.06)^b

0.79 (0.08)^c

2.91 (0.19)^d

0.001

SOC

14.91 (4.34)^a

21.96 (0.35)^a

25.70 (0.82)^b

31.60 (0.88)^b

48.38 (4.28)^c

77.69 (5.30)^d

0.001

TAGC

6.00 (0.42)^a

6.90 (0.77)^a

9.06 (0.85)^a

19.38 (0.48)^b

32.55 (0.86)^c

152.68 (6.60)^d

0.001

TBGC

16.04 (4.27)^a

23.37 (0.54)^a

27.67 (0.99)^b

36.00 (0.97)^c

55.93 (4.15)^d

112.94 (4.53)^e

0.001

TEC

22.04 (3.85)^a

30.26 (1.30)^a

36.73 (1.80)^b

55.39 (1.36)^c

88.48 (3.70)^d

265.63 (5.82)^e

0.001