Environmental Systems Research

Table 2 Soil textural fractions (%) in relation to the land use types and soil depths (mean ± SE)

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

Variables	Depth(cm)	Land use
Variables	Depth(cm)	Exclosure	Grazing land	Overall
Sand	0–10	72.3 (±0.71)	74.4 (±1.02)	73.3 (±0.65)^a
	10–20	71.3 (±0.48)	71.9 (±0.54)	71.6 (±0.36)^a
	Overall	71.8 (±0.43)^a	73.1 (±0.62)^a
Silt	0–10	19.6 (±0.60)	18.7 (±0.92)	19.2 (±0.65)^a
	10–20	20.3 (±0.57)	20.1 (±0.47)	20.2 (±0.36)^a
	Overall	20.0 (±0.52)^a	19.4 (±0.50)^a
Clay	0–10	7.9 (±0.51)	7.1 (±0.41)	7.5 (±0.34)^a
	10–20	8.5 (±0.48)	7.9 (±0.51)	8.2 (±0.35)^a
	Overall	8.2 (±0.35)^a	7.5 (±0.33)^a
Textural class	0–10	SL	SL	SL
	10–20	SL	SL	SL
	Overall	SL	SL

Overall means followed by the same letter (s) across columns and rows are not significantly different (p = 0.05) with respect to land uses and soil depth
SL sandy loam, SE standard error of the mean

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