Land Cover and Soil Properties Influence on Forage Quantity in a Semiarid Region in East Africa

Table 3

Relationship between soil properties and forage quantity in thickets/shrublands.

	% N	% clay	SOM	% sand	% silt	Biomass (kg/ha)	Ca	K	Mg	Na	P (ppm)	pH
% N	1
% clay	0.132	1
SOM	0.632	−0.395	1
% sand	−0.368	−0.763	0	1
% silt	0.5	−0.763	0.789	0.289	1
Biomass (kg/ha)	−0.564	−0.667	−0.154	0.359	0.308	1
Ca	0.289	−0.553	0.026	0.553	0.526	0.205	1
K	0.921	0.289	0.553	−0.289	0.263	−0.821	0.158	1
Mg	0.289	−0.553	0.026	0.553	0.526	0.205	1	0.158	1
Na	−0.308	0.564	−0.872	−0.41	−0.667	0.1	−0.051	−0.359	−0.051	1
P (ppm)	0.289	0.684	−0.237	−0.921	−0.289	−0.154	−0.289	0.132	−0.289	0.667	1
pH	0.975	0.205	0.667	−0.359	0.41	−0.7	0.154	0.975	0.154	−0.4	0.205	1