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Table 4 Soil carbon stocks and retentions in a transect along a toposequence in Didessa watershed

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

Land uses

SOC Stocks, Mg ha−1

SOC retentions, Mg ha−1 year−1

Mean*

Std. Error

Mean**

Std. Error

Cropping land (reference-highland)

10.695ab

0.739

–

–

Grass land (reference-lowland)

9.265b

1.045

–

–

Coffee agroforestry

11.595ab

1.045

0.114b

0.073

Fallow land

10.48ab

1.045

0.200b

0.073

Grazing land

13.075a

1.045

0.279b

0.073

Eucalyptus agroforestry

13.5a

1.045

0.308b

0.073

Sugar plantation

12.67ab

1.045

1.135a

0.073

  1. Means under the column * followed by the different small letter are statistically significant at P ≤ 0.05 but not at P ≤ 0.01 using Dunken multiple range test, while Means under column ** followed by the different small letter are statistically significant at P ≤  = 0.05 using Tukey test
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