Partitioning Carbon Dioxide Emission and Assessing Dissolved Organic Carbon Leaching of a Drained Peatland Cultivated with Pineapple at Saratok, Malaysia

Table 3

Effect of fumigating drained peat soil with chloroform on soil microbial biomass carbon.

Monitoring cycle	Mean soil microbial biomass carbon; (g C/g soil)
Initial before chloroform application	94.7^a
September 2012	29.6^f
November 2012	73.4^b
January 2013	56.0^d
April 2013	67.2^c
July 2013	46.0^e

Mean values with different letters are significantly different at ≤ 0.05.