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Table 2 Some chemical properties of soils and durations of land use catena in the transect

From: Soil organic carbon stock and retention rate among land uses along Didessa toposequence in humid Western Ethiopia

Districts

Sites

Land uses

Duration (year)

C (%)

ρb, g cm−3

C stocks, Mg C ha−1

Guto Gidda

Fayinera

Coffee agroforestry

50

7.31

0.83

12.18

Eucalyptus agroforestry

10

6.41

1.12

14.29

Cultivated land

40

4.75

1.08

10.27

Short fallow

3

5.20

1.07

11.13

Dune Kane

Coffee agroforestry

22

6.33

0.87

11.01

Protected forest

22

5.92

1.02

12.07

Eucalyptus agroforestry

15

5.67

1.12

12.71

Cultivated land

 

4.39

1.08

9.49

Short fallow land

3

4.52

1.09

9.83

Diga

Jirata

Eucalyptus agroforestry

15

4.85

1.12

10.81

Cultivated land

2

4.58

1.12

10.29

Short fallow

3

4.71

1.08

10.19

Coffee agroforestry

15

5.14

0.88

9.00

Leka Dulacha

Near catholic

Cultivated land

 

4.03

1.26

10.14

Eucalyptus agroforestry

15

4.24

0.99

8.42

Short fallow

3

4.61

1.19

10.94

Balho

Grazing land

8

6.16

1.24

15.21

Forest land

12

8.44

0.74

12.43

Cultivated land

40

5.69

1.13

12.88

Bedele

Sugarcane

Sugar plantation at harvest

3

4.46

1.49

13.31

Grassland

 

3.39

1.32

8.93

Sugarcane plantation

3

3.49

1.29

9.04

Jimma Arjo

Sugarcane

Grassland

 

4.17

1.15

9.60

Sugar plantation at harvest

3

4.18

1.44

12.03

Sugar plantation

3

2.75

1.25

7.41