Spatial Variability of Physical Soil Quality Index of an Agricultural Field

Table 3

Descriptive statistics for selected physical soil quality indicators of an agricultural field of Ganges Tidal Floodplain soil (classified as Inceptisols order of US Soil Taxonomy), Bangladesh, collected using 10 m × 10 m grid sampling technique.

Physical soil quality indicators	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	Median	Standard deviation	Skewness	Kurtosis
Sand, %	3.16	16.42	9.60	9.64	3.43	−0.13	−0.56
Silt, %	25.5	51.03	39.74	38.25	6.44	0.002	−0.57
Clay, %	42.81	61.14	50.66	49.45	5.87	0.50	−0.87
Bulk density, g cm^−3	0.99	1.34	1.22	1.24	0.09	−0.72	0.06
Porosity, %	43.3	57.91	48.23	47.56	3.61	0.83	0.55
𝐾𝑆^‡, cm day^−1	1.00	41.9	11.78	7.16	12.11	1.30	0.69
MWD^#, mm	0.53	2.38	1.46	1.52	0.58	−0.15	−1.08

‡Saturated hydraulic conductivity; ^#mean weight diameter.