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

Table 4

Mean (±SEM) of selected soil exchangeable cations, sum of cations, and ESP across land uses and soil depths.

Land uses	Depth (cm)	Exch. Na (meq/100 g)	Exch. K (meq/100 g)	Exch.Ca (meq/100 g)	Exch. Mg (meq/100 g)	Sum of cations (meq/100 g)	ESP
Cultivated	0–15	2.5 ± 0.04	0.42 ± 0.09^a	18.8 ± 0.58	6.47 ± 0.26	28.2 ± 0.78^ab	8.96 ± 0.27^ab
	15–30	2.45 ± 0.04^a	0.31 ± 0.07	19.0 ± 0.47	6.05 ± 0.01	27.8 ± 0.48	8.82 ± 0.25
Eucalyptus	0–15	2.4 ± 0.02	0.29 ± 0.01^ab	17.1 ± 1.45	6.68 ± 0.73	26.5 ± 1.07^a	9.46 ± 0.33^a
	15–30	2.47 ± 0.06^ab	0.23 ± 0.02	17.5 ± 1.30	6.21 ± 0.48	26.5 ± 1.82	9.48 ± 0.57
Grassland	0–15	2.5 ± 0.04	0.23 ± 0.02^b	20.4 ± 1.13	7.15 ± 0.21	30.2 ± 1.32^b	8.32 ± 0.36^b
	15–30	2.63 ± 0.05^b	0.19 ± 0.01	21.5 ± 1.78	7.38 ± 0.55	31.7 ± 2.31	8.44 ± 0.62

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