Effect of Different Types of Mulching on Soil Properties and Tree Growth of Magnolia champaca Planted at the Montane Rainforest in Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia

Table 2

Physical and chemical properties of soil under different types of mulching experiments.

Treatments	pH	Soil moisture content (%)	Soil organic carbon (%)	Total S (%)	Total N (g kg^−1)	Available (mg·kg^−1)	Exchange K (cmol/kg)
CM	4.59 ± 0.15	14.32 ± 1.09	0.14 ± 0.22	0.01 ± 0.00	0.05 ± 0.04	3.34 ± 0.71	0.10 ± 0.04
OM	4.51 ± 0.15	14.60 ± 1.10	0.07 ± 0.06	0.01 ± 0.00	0.02 ± 0.04	4.08 ± 1.88	0.09 ± 0.05
PM	4.28 ± 0.13	20.49 ± 3.52	0.04 ± 0.03	0.02 ± 0.01	0.01 ± 0.00	3.88 ± 2.17	0.04 ± 0.02
CK	4.31 ± 0.26	17.78 ± 0.90	0.07 ± 0.02	0.02 ± 0.00	0.05 ± 0.05	3.73 ± 3.73	0.02 ± 0.01