Research Article
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 ± 0.09a | 18.8 ± 0.58 | 6.47 ± 0.26 | 28.2 ± 0.78ab | 8.96 ± 0.27ab | 15–30 | 2.45 ± 0.04a | 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 ± 0.01ab | 17.1 ± 1.45 | 6.68 ± 0.73 | 26.5 ± 1.07a | 9.46 ± 0.33a | 15–30 | 2.47 ± 0.06ab | 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 ± 0.02b | 20.4 ± 1.13 | 7.15 ± 0.21 | 30.2 ± 1.32b | 8.32 ± 0.36b | 15–30 | 2.63 ± 0.05b | 0.19 ± 0.01 | 21.5 ± 1.78 | 7.38 ± 0.55 | 31.7 ± 2.31 | 8.44 ± 0.62 |
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The superscripts across a column in different letters represent that they are significantly different at p ≤ 0.05.
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