Effects of landscape positions on soil physicochemical properties at Shenkolla Watershed, South Central Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Table 10 Interaction effects of landscape positions and land use types on micronutrients (mean ± SE)

Soil property	Landscape	Land use types			Total
Soil property	Position	Cultivated land	Grazing land	Forest	Total
Fe	Lower	194.33 ± 8.686	225.00 ± 0.000	292.67 ± 13.860	237.33 ± 15.273^ab
	Medium	175.33 ± 0.882	221.67 ± 0.333	266.67 ± 0.333	221.22 ± 13.186^abc
	Upper	116.33 ± 9.871	181.67 ± 1.155	235.00 ± 0.577	177.67 ± 17.393^bc
	Total	162.00 ± 12.342^a	209.44 ± 6.962^b	264.78 ± 9.249^c
Mn	Lower	157.67 ± 0.333	260.33 ± 0.333	270.33 ± 22.303	229.44 ± 19.120^ab
	Medium	113.33 ± 0.333	188.12 ± 1.076	226.33 ± 0.882	175.89 ± 16.594^abc
	Upper	84.67 ± 0.333	117.67 ± 2.603	197.00 ± 3.055	133.11 ± 16.708^bc
	Total	118.56 ± 10.619^a	188.67 ± 20.609^b	231.22 ± 12.483^c
Zn	Lower	5.00 ± 0.000	6.67 ± 0.333	12.00 ± 0.000	7.89 ± 1.060^ab
	Medium	2.00 ± 0.000	5.00 ± 0.000	9.00 ± 0.000	5.33 ± 1.014^abc
	Upper	0.67 ± 0.458	2.00 ± 0.000	6.00 ± 0.000	2.89 ± 0.807^bc
	Total	2.56 ± 0.648^a	4.56 ± 0.689^b	9.00 ± 0.866^c
Cu	Lower	0.46 ± 0.011	0.57 ± 0.028	0.75 ± 0.017	0.67 ± 0.167^ab
	Medium	0.34 ± 0.021	0.44 ± 0.049	0.60 ± 0.005	0.44 ± 0.176^abc
	Upper	0.22 ± 0.012	0.29 ± 0.014	0.45 ± 0.024	0.32 ± 0.000b^c
	Total	0.34 ± 0.010^a	0.44 ± 0.176^b	0.67 ± 0.167^c

Means in the same row for land use and in the same column for landscape position followed by similar letters are not significantly different at (p = 0.05)