Soil Quality Assessment Strategies for Evaluating Soil Degradation in Northern Ethiopia

Table 1

Topographic characteristics of each sampling unit in the eight LUSMS selected for soil quality assessment within the Mai-Negus catchment in northern Ethiopia.

LUSMS	Sampling Unit 1				Sampling Unit 2				Sampling Unit 3
	Elevation; (m)	Slope; (%)	UTM^a		Elevation; (m)	Slope; (%)	UTM		Elevation; (m)	Slope; (%)	UTM
			Latitude	Longitude			Latitude	Longitude			Latitude	Longitude
LS1	2175	7	463657	1561482	2170	5.5	463856	1561592	2173	6.2	464039	1561523
LS2	2124	4.5	463383	1560411	2152	5	463615	1560503	2138	5.5	463248	1560503
LS3	2136	5	463425	1561193	2165	5.5	463489	1561466	2151	5.0	463535	1561614
LS4	2168	6	463592	1561250	2145	6.5	462538	1561454	2157	6.0	463168	1561832
LS5	2141	6.5	463606	1561338	2163	7	463317	1561763	2152	6.8	463707	1561912
LS6	2165	6	463734	1561459	2136	5.5	463363	1561500	2151	5.8	464124	1561328
LS7	2162	6.5	462810	1561314	2155	7	462641	1561614	2159	6.8	464027	1561202
LS8	2149	7	462795	1561152	2138	5	462745	1561718	2144	6.0	463913	1562153

^aUniversal Transverse Mercator 37 North (UTM-37N) in meters is the projection system.
LUSMS: land use and soil management systems; LS1: natural forest (reference); LS2: plantation of protected area; LS3: grazed land; LS4: teff (Eragrostis tef)-faba bean (Vicia faba) rotation; LS5: teff-wheat (Triticum vulgare)/Barley (Hordeum vulgare) rotation; LS6: teff monocropping; LS7: Maize (Zea mays) mono-cropping; LS8: uncultivated-marginal land system.