Soil Metals and Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Associated with American Chestnut Hybrids as Reclamation Trees on Formerly Coal Mined Land

Table 1

Comparison of survival, height, flowers, cankers, and percent ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungal root colonization on eight-year-old chestnut tree types (pure American, BC₁F₃, and BC₂F₃) on a reclaimed mine site in Dresden OH, USA. Means sharing common letters do not significantly differ at to Tukey’s HSD.

Chestnut tree type	Surviving trees	Mean HT (cm) ± SE	Trees flowering	Trees with cankers	% ECM
BC1F3	72%		40%	5%
BC2F3	80%		38%	7%
American	70%		36%	15%