Effects of Land Use Types on Selected Soil Properties in Central Highlands of Ethiopia

Table 2

Mean (±SEM) of selected soil physical properties across land uses and soil depths.

Land uses	Depth (cm	pH H2O (1 : 2.5)	EC (mS/cm) (1 : 2.5)	Texture			Texture	Soil moisture (%)	Soil bulk density (g/cm^3)
				% clay	% sand	% silt	Class (USDA)
Cultivated	0–15	4.92 ± 0.03^a	0.75 ± 0.02^a	46.3	20.0	33.7	Clay	8.35 ± 0.37	0.25 ± 0.03
	15–30	5.23 ± 0.14^a	0.92 ± 0.02	51.2	22.5	26.3	Clay	8.38 ± 0.59	0.26 ± 0.02
Eucalyptus	0–15	5.14 ± 0.08 ^ab	0.82 ± 0.05^ab	51.3	15.6	33.1	Clay	7.88 ± 1.06	0.24 ± 0.01
	15–30	5.12 ± 0.01^a	0.87 ± 0.04	46.2	21.3	32.5	Clay	9.98 ± 1.38	0.26 ± 0.01
Grassland	0–15	5.35 ± 0.11^b	0.86 ± 0.02^b	44.4	24.4	31.2	Clay	8.93 ± 0.10	0.21 ± 0.02
	15–30	5.59 ± 0.12^b	0.84 ± 0.04	51.3	18.1	30.6	Clay	9.55 ± 0.24	0.24 ± 0.01

The superscripts across a column in different letters represent that they are significantly different at p ≤ 0.05.