Impact of Different Land-Use Systems on Soil Physicochemical Properties and Macrofauna Abundance in the Humid Tropics of Cameroon

Table 5

Pearson’s correlation matrix of some selected soil physicochemical properties and macrofauna abundance.

	pH	OM	BD	Earthworm	Ant	Beetle/weevil	Spider	Snail	Fruit fly	Mosquito
pH	1
OM	−0.3163	1
BD	0.325	−0.9653	1
Earthworm	−0.9072	0.3603	−0.4623	1
Ant	−0.5932	0.7643	−0.8828	0.7838	1
Beetle/weevil	0.2904	−0.132	−0.097	0.128	0.2714	1
Spider	−0.5396	0.5922	−0.6895	0.7843	0.8187	0.4089	1
Snail	0.5794	0.0254	0.1892	−0.822	−0.6187	−0.5745	−0.6229	1
Fruit fly	0.5658	0.0639	0.1519	−0.8061	−0.5884	−0.5786	−0.5977	0.9993	1
Mosquito	0.9346	−0.4438	0.5246	−0.9552	−0.8085	0.0471	−0.6438	0.727	0.7087	1

Correlation coefficient is significant at the 0.01 level. Correlation coefficient is significant at the 0.05 level.