Research Article
Soil Quality Assessment Strategies for Evaluating Soil Degradation in Northern Ethiopia
Table 1
Topographic characteristics of each sampling unit in the eight LUSMS selected for soil quality assessment within the Mai-Negus catchment in northern Ethiopia.
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aUniversal Transverse Mercator 37 North (UTM-37N) in meters is the projection system. LUSMS: land use and soil management systems; LS1: natural forest (reference); LS2: plantation of protected area; LS3: grazed land; LS4: teff (Eragrostis tef)-faba bean (Vicia faba) rotation; LS5: teff-wheat (Triticum vulgare)/Barley (Hordeum vulgare) rotation; LS6: teff monocropping; LS7: Maize (Zea mays) mono-cropping; LS8: uncultivated-marginal land system. |