Soil property variations in relation to exclosure and open grazing land use types in the Central Rift Valley area of Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Table 1 Summary of two-way ANOVA results for sand, silt and clay fractions, soil moisture content and bulk density in relation to land use types and soil depths

Source of variation	df	Sand (%)		Silt (%)		Clay (%)		Bd (g/cm³)		SMC (%)
Source of variation	df	MS	ρ	MS	ρ	MS	ρ	MS	ρ	MS	ρ
LU	1	15.00	0.068	52.08	0.31	6.38	0.140	0.001	0.901	1.24	0.169
D	1	29.63	0.180	33.33	0.16	0.13	0.831	0.008	0.327	39.24	<0.0001
LU × D	1	3.25	0.320	25.52	0.34	6.38	0.140	0.008	0.924	0.61	0.330
Error	44	6.309		5.32		2.82		0.009		0.637

df Degree of freedom, LU land use, D soil depth, MS mean square, Bd bulk density, SMC soil moisture content