From: Soil quality evaluation under different land use types in Kersa sub-watershed, eastern Ethiopia
LUT | Sand (%) | Clay (%) | TP (%) | BIR (cm/ hr) | WSA (%) | BD (g/cm3) | Exchangeable properties (Cmol( +)/kg soil) | Av.P (mgkg−1) | OC (%) | TN (%) | pH (H2O) | SBR (CO2/min/day) | Fe (mgkg−1) | Zn (mg kg−1) | |||
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Ca | K | Mg | CEC | ||||||||||||||
Grazing | 54.0a | 29.0a | 57.56a | 2.20a | 66.30a | 1.18b | 23.33a | 2.64a | 7.20a | 39.00a | 10.12a | 1.87a | 0.18a | 7.29a | 7.6a | 6.60a | 1.68a |
Cultivated | 54.0a | 29.3a | 56.40a | 2.13a | 59.00b | 1.30ab | 22.50a | 0.94b | 6.10b | 31.5b | 6.43b | 1.05b | 0.14b | 7.25a | 6.0b | 4.60b | 0.92b |
Fallow | 51.0a | 28.0a | 52.2b | 2.16a | 53.00c | 1.33a | 19.6b | 0.80b | 5.70b | 29.40c | 5.63b | 0.57c | 0.08c | 6.72b | 3.7c | 4.30c | 0.86b |
Mean | 53 | 23.3 | 55.30 | 2.20 | 59.44 | 1.27 | 21.83 | 1.46 | 6.35 | 33.31 | 7.34 | 1.16 | 0.136 | 7.09 | 5.8 | 5.16 | 1.16 |
CV | 11.8 | 28.8 | 1.11 | 12.30 | 2.02 | 5.16 | 2.09 | 12.41 | 3.99 | 2.06 | 20.90 | 1.35 | 5.45 | 3.41 | 10.4 | 1.93 | 5.43 |
LSD | 12.4 | 13.4 | 1.23 | 0.52 | 2.40 | 0.13 | 0.91 | 0.36 | 0.51 | 1.376 | 3.10 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.48 | 1.1987 | 0.19 | 0.13 |