Phosphorus Adsorption and Its Correlation with Physicochemical Properties of Volcanic-Influenced Soils of Meupi-Awing in Northwest Cameroon

Table 4

Pearson product moment correlations between some important soil physicochemical properties and phosphorus sorption parameters of the soils.

	pH	SB	AP	EA	Clay	Amorphous Fe	Free Fe	Amorphous Al	Free Al
1/n	−0.271	−0.349	0.894	−0.433	0.207	0.836	0.898	0.114	0.921
K F	−0.941	0.113	0.553	0.426	0.758	0.932	0.879	0.329	0.844
K L	−0.947	0.571	0.098	0.512	0.968	0.697	0.608	0.661	0.541
X m	0.110	−0.801	0.930	−0.476	−0.349	0.520	0.615	−0.434	0.678
b	−0.522	−0.299	0.905	−0.155	0.366	0.953	0.984	0.120	0.994
a	0.402	0.361	−0.925	0.278	−0.267	−0.904	−0.951	−0.079	−0.970
n	−0.487	−0.309	0.909	−0.197	0.343	0.941	0.976	0.118	0.988
m	−0.198	0.465	−0.763	0.775	0.159	−0.492	−0.595	0.022	−0.642

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two-tailed). Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two-tailed).