Effects of Land Use/Land Cover Changes on Selected Soil Physical and Chemical Properties in Shenkolla Watershed, South Central Ethiopia

Table 3

Mean values of some selected physical properties of soils as affected by land uses.

Land use	Water-holding capacity			Water-stable aggregates
	FC (1/3 bar)	PWP (15 bar)	AWC (mm/m)
Forest	35.16	19.84^ab	15.32^a	84.65^a
Grazing land	28.44	13.5^b	14.94^a	75.51^a
Cultivated outfields	28.38	15.9^b	12.48^a	63.49^a
Homestead	34.31	25.49^a	8.81^d	82.13^a
Mean	31.37	18.58	12.79	76.84
SE (±)	1.27	0.84	0.57	1.6
F	1.68	8.47	5.9	9.3
Sig	ns

For each column, means having common letters are not significantly different at ; FC = field capacity, PWP = permanent wilting point, AWC = available water-holding capacity, SE = standard error of mean, and ns = nonsignificant; and .