Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi under different agroforestry practices in the drylands of Southern Ethiopia

Table 3 Isolation frequency (IF), Relative abundance (RA), importance value (IV) of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi species among the four agroforestry practices between the upper (0–30 cm) and lower soil depths (30–60 cm)

Agroforestry types	IF		RA		IV
Agroforestry types	0–30	30–60	0–30	30–60	0–30	30–60
HAFP	24.728	0	5.638	0.08	15.482	0
CLAFP	12.369	1.563	2.958	0.284	7.665	0.924
WLAFP	12.271	0.596	2.547	0.117	7.411	0.383
TSWAFP	14.627	0	1.4944	0.109	9.516	0

*The AMF species were from the soil of homegarden based agroforestry practices (HAFP), cropland-based agroforestry practices (CLAFP), woodlot-based agroforestry practices (WlAFP) and trees on soil and water conservation-based agroforestry practices (TSWAFP) in southern Ethiopia

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