Study of the Soil Seed Bank Composition in Arjo-Diga Humid Afromontane Forest under Different Land Use Types and Its Implications for the Restoration of Degraded Lands in Western Ethiopia

Table 7

Pairwise comparisons of the mean soil seed density between soil layers.

Explanatory variable	Pairwise comparison of soil layers	Estimate	Std. Error	t value	Pr (>|t|)	Sig.
Seed density (seeds/m^2)	3–6 cm vs. 0–3 cm	−7.138	2.329	−3.064	0.00771
	6–9 cm vs. 0–3 cm	−8.383	2.329	−3.599	0.00141
	6–9 cm vs. 3–6 cm	−1.245	2.329	−0.534	0.85461

^∗∗Significant at p < 0.01.