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

Table 4

Mean values of the selected chemical properties of soils as affected by land uses.

Land use	pH (H20)	OC%	TN (%)	C/N ratio	AP (mg/kg)
Forest	7.20^a	2.24^a	0.24^a	9.33	16.00^a
Grazing land	6.57^c	1.93^c	0.20^b	9.65	14.27^ab
Cultivated outfields	5.80^d	1.31^d	0.14^c	9.36	9.13^d
Homestead	6.83^b	1.85^c	0.20^b	9.25	12.27^c
Mean	6.6	1.83	0.19	9.40	12.92
SE (±)	0.08	0.1	0.01	0.36	0.51
F	17.12	13.59	57.71	0.079	10.99
Sig				ns

For each column, means having common letters are not significantly different at ; OC = organic carbon, TN = total nitrogen, C/N = carbon to nitrogen ratio, AP = available phosphorus, SE = standard error of the mean, and ns = nonsignificant; and .