Fig. 1From: Assessment of soil microbial and enzyme activity in the rhizosphere zone under different land use/cover of a semiarid region, IndiaSC (a), SN (b), SMBC (c), SBR (d), and SSIR (e) under different land uses. Mean values with different letters are significantly different between land use (P < 0.05; Tukey’s test at ⍺ = 0.05). Error bars represent the standard error of the mean. Note: SC soil carbon, SN soil nitrogen, SMBC soil microbial biomass carbon, SBR soil basal respiration, SSIR soil substrate-induced respiration, MFC mixed forest cover, PFC P. juliflora-dominated forest cover, AF agriculture filed, VF vegetable fieldBack to article page