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

Table 6

Mean values of selected micronutrients as affected by different land use classes.

Land use	Mg/kg
	Fe	Mn	Zn	Cu
Forest	81.02^a	55.47^a	1.52^d	0.58^b
Grazing land	102.14^a	101.38^a	2.55^c	0.39^c
Cultivated outfields	98.60^a	92.65^a	4.82^b	0.54^b
Homestead	100.37^a	97.02^a	7.38^a	0.68^a
Mean	95.53	86.63	4.07	0.55
SE (±)	3.89	5.25	0.37	0.04
F	6.05	16.15	50.31	6.75
Sig

For each column, means having common letters are not significantly different at ; Fe = iron, Mn = manganese, Zn = zinc, Cu = copper, and SE = standard error of the mean; ; .