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

Table 3

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

Land uses	Depth (cm)	OC (%)	TN (%)	K (meq/100 g)	Available S (%)	Available P (mg/kg)	CEC (meq/100 g)
Cultivated	0–15	3.09 ± 0.33^a	0.33 ± 0.03	0.41 ± 0.09	1.34 ± 0.86	2.36 ± 0.2	26.3 ± 5.5^a
	15–30	3.08 ± 0.22	0.29 ± 0.02	0.32 ± 0.08^a	1.88 ± 1.17	2.77 ± 0.6	31.6 ± 6.44
Eucalyptus	0–15	2.47 ± 0.19^b	0.31 ± 0.06	0.21 ± 0.02	0.54 ± 0.04	3.05 ± 1.1	21.9 ± 0.91^b
	15–30	3.11 ± 0.19	0.29 ± 0.02	0.28 ± 0.02^ab	0.31 ± 0.01	3.07 ± 0.5	21.1 ± 1.06
Grassland	0–15	3.78 ± 0.33^a	0.36 ± 0.03	0.20 ± 0.01	0.77 ± 0.04	2.44 ± 0.3	24.8 ± 0.90^b
	15–30	2.91 ± 0.22	0.30 ± 0.02	0.14 ± 0.01^b	0.66 ± 0.05	1.88 ± 0.2	25.5 ± 1.59

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