Effects of land use change on soil physicochemical properties in selected areas in the North West region of Cameroon

Environmental Systems Research

Table 6 Summary of ANOVA for EC, exchangeable cations and CEC in relation to land use and elevation

Source of variations	df	EC		Ex. Na⁺		Ex. K⁺		Ex. Ca²⁺		Ex. Mg²⁺		CEC
Source of variations		MS	P	MS	P	MS	P	MS	P	MS	P	MS	P
Land use (LU)	5	0.016	0.000	0.063	0.681	3.842	0.65	6.734	0.248	2.958	0.091	92.832	0.332
Elevation (E)	2	0.003	0.029	0.077	0.472	13.786	0.001	51.454	0.000	11.39	0.001	105.58	0.271
LU * E	8	0.001	0.209	0.136	0.235	3.182	0.089	26.472	0.000	2.521	0.114	79.766	0.440
Error	80	0.001		0.102		1.768		4.949		1.493		79.446