Monitoring soil quality of different land use systems: a case study in Suha watershed, northwestern highlands of Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Table 2 Descriptive statistics of the analyzed soil physicochemical properties in the Suha Watershed

Soil properties	No. of samples	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	SE	CV (%)
Physical properties
Sand (%)	27	0.24	49.06	13.21	2.57	177.98
Clay (%)	27	5.66	86.04	53.72	3.73	375.72
Silt (%)	27	12.47	45.28	33.07	1.77	84.9
ISS	27	1.05	10.78	4.65	0.53	7.60
FC (%)	27	36.47	72.41	48.57	1.59	68.70
PWP (%)	27	25.12	49.28	33.98	1.11	33.41
AWHC (%)	27	10.00	23.13	14.59	0.57	8.73
Chemical properties
pH-H₂O	27	4.93	6.31	5.78	0.06	0.11
OC (%)	27	0.38	4.60	2.27	0.23	1.44
TN (%)	27	0.05	0.35	0.15	0.01	0.00
C:N	27	7.6	20.14	15.11	0.72	13.83
Av.P (mg kg⁻¹)	27	10.10	64.50	27.20	3.87	223.27
Ex. Na⁺ (cmol(+) kg⁻¹)	27	0.48	2.51	1.37	0.09	0.21
Ex. K⁺ (cmol(+) kg⁻¹)	27	0.17	3.28	1.07	0.13	0.49
Ex. Ca²⁺ (cmol(+) kg⁻¹)	27	18.94	58.77	37.69	2.07	116.26
Ex. Mg²⁺(cmol(+) kg⁻¹)	27	7.36	22.14	13.59	0.78	16.74
CEC (cmol(+) kg⁻¹)	27	45.58	88.55	69.44	2.24	135.31
BS (%)	27	56.9	99.4	76.48	2.24	148.51