Research Article
Land Cover and Soil Properties Influence on Forage Quantity in a Semiarid Region in East Africa
Table 6
Effects of land cover type on physical and chemical soil properties at 15–30 cm depth.
| Season | Land use type | Sand | Clay | Silt | SOM | TN | | Exch. K | Ca | Mg | Na | pH | % | ppm | Cmol/Kg |
| Dry | Grassland | 58.3 | 28.0 | 15.8 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 4.6 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 8.3 | Thickets and shrubs | 54.6 | 29.9 | 15.4 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 3.9 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 8.0 | Woodlands | 76.4 | 16.1 | 13.8 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 4.7 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 6.9 |
| Wet | Grassland | 56.9 | 29.7 | 15.8 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 30.8 | 4.3 | 1.0 | 7.9 | Thickets and shrubs | 56.0 | 28.5 | 18.0 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 20.7 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 8.0 | Woodlands | 56.9 | 27.0 | 20.4 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 17.9 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 7.3 |
| Land cover () | | 0.004 | 0.02 | Ns | 0.042 | Ns | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.049 | 0.048 | Ns | 0.003 | Season () | | 0.02 | Ns | Ns | 0.002 | 0.003 | Ns | Ns | <.001 | <.001 | Ns | Ns |
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