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

Environmental Systems Research

Table 4 Interaction effects of landscape positions and land use types on water retentive capacity and water stable aggregates (mean ± SE)

Water holding capacity at FC
Lower	29.00 ± 0.000	33.67 ± 0.333	41.00 ± 0.000	34.56 ± 1.749^a
Medium	23.67 ± 0.333	28.33 ± 0.235	35.33 ± 0.667	29.11 ± 1.584^ab
Upper	18.67 ± 0.333	22.67 ± 0.333	28.33 ± 2.400	23.22 ± 1.711^c
Total	23.78 ± 1.498^a	28.22 ± 1.597^ab	34.89 ± 1.889^c
Water holding capacity at PWP
Lower	17.00 ± 0.203	18.67 ± 0.882	22.00 ± 1.000	19.22 ± 0.830^a
Medium	12.67 ± 0.230	14.33 ± 0.333	19.33 ± 0.882	15.44 ± 1.042^abc
Upper	8.33 ± 0.333	10.33 ± 0.318	18.33 ± 0.667	12.33 ± 1.546^c
Total	12.67 ± 1.258^a	14.44 ± 1.237^ab	19.89 ± 0.696^c
AWC
Lower	12.00 ± 0.000	15.00 ± 1.000	18.33 ± 0.882	15.11 ± 0.992^a
Medium	11.00 ± 0.000	14.00 ± 0.000	16.00 ± 0.577	13.67 ± 0.745^ab
Upper	10.00 ± 0.095	12.33 ± 0.333	10.00 ± 1.000	10.78 ± 0.494^c
Total	11.00 ± 0.289^a	13.78 ± 0.494^abc	14.78 ± 1.310^c
STA
Lower	69.50 ± 0.500	73.67 ± 0.333	81.33 ± 0.333	74.86 ± 1.724
Medium	68.33 ± 0.882	72.00 ± 0.000	80.67 ± 0.333	73.67 ± 1.869
Upper	67.67 ± 0.333	71.33 ± 0.667	80.00 ± 0.577	72.90 ± 1.855
Total	68.46 ± 0.366^a	72.27 ± 0.402^b	80.70 ± 0.254^bc

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