*2.5. Data Analyses*

The analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to evaluate the effect of fertilizer treatment in one season. For the evaluation of fertilizer treatment, season, and their interaction, the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used. Both analyses were followed by Tukey's HSD post hoc test to select the treatments and seasons that differentiated significantly. To perform all analyses, we used STATISTICA 13.3 software (TIBCO Software, Palo Alto, CA, USA). The linear-plateau model was calculated using the R software (R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria, 2020), together with the three R packages [34–36].
