Dynamics of Soil Physical and Chemical Properties under Different Current Land Use Types and Elevation Gradients in the Sala Watershed of Ari Zone, South Ethiopia
Table 3
Descriptive and analysis of variance statistics for soil physical and chemical properties.
Mean in each land use type and soil properties
P value
Soil properties
Elevation gradients
Land use types
Upper
Middle
Lower
CL
GL
SL
BL
LU
Elevation
Sand
36.60
35.52
40.04
44.96
28.20
25.70
50.30
0.053
0.777
Clay
48.95
41.56
38.06
34.96
53.16
55.00
31.35
0.103
0.383
Silt
14.45
22.91
21.89
20.06
18.63
19.30
18.35
0.960
0.145
pH
5.09
5.66
6.47
5.26
5.66
7.10
4.62
0.018
0.027
OM
2.71
3.49
4.10
3.56
4.43
3.99
1.39
0.001
0.002
TN
0.15
0.18
0.22
0.08
0.20
0.26
0.16
0.002
0.247
Av. P
40.69
66.65
95.74
52.33
64.67
120.10
20.18
0.002
0.003
Av. K
139.63
158.62
181.35
187.99
137.90
217.08
86.38
0.001
0.002
CEC
29.24
32.34
32.61
29.21
34.28
37.25
23.76
0.026
0.264
Land use types: CL, cultivated land; GL, grazing land; BL, barren land; SL, shrub land.
