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

Table 5

Effects of land cover type on physical and chemical soil properties at 0–15 cm depth.

Season	Land cover type	Sand	Clay	Silt	SOM	T N	Av. P	K	Ca	Mg	Na	pH
		%					ppm	Cmol/Kg
Dry	Grassland	54.8	29.2	16	1.84	0.1	7.4	0.8	4.2	1.2	0.9	7.9
	Thickets/shrublands	54	33.7	14.3	1.3	0.1	0.5	0.7	4.7	1.3	1.6	8.2
	Woodlands	68.9	13.1	13.8	1.37	0.1	5.4	0.6	11.6	0.4	0.2	6.9
Wet	Grassland	53.2	31.9	15.1	1.45	0.1	0.75	0.7	24.0	4.1	0.9	7.9
	Thickets/shrublands	50.8	34	16.7	1.2	0.1	0.32	0.6	27.3	4.0	1.4	8.1
	Woodlands	57.6	26	22.9	1.3	0.1	3.06	0.6	9.6	3.3	0.4	7.0
Land cover ()		0.03	<.001	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns	<.001	Ns	<.001	<.001
Season ()		Ns	0.047	0.049	Ns	0.02	Ns	Ns	<.001	<.001	Ns	Ns