Soil Organic Carbon Distribution in a Humid Tropical Plain of Cameroon: Interrelationships with Soil Properties

Table 7

Correlation matrix between SOC and Munsell color attributes.

	VM	CM	VM + CM	VD	CD	VD + CD	SOC
VM	1
CM	0.338	1
VM + CM	0.670^∗∗	0.925^∗∗	1
VD	0.659^∗∗	0.425^∗	0.601^∗∗	1
CD	−0.125	−0.052	−0.091	−0.471^∗∗	1
VD + CD	0.545^∗∗	0.379^∗	0.519^∗∗	0.564^∗∗	0.463^∗∗	1
SOC	−0.573^∗∗	−0.402^∗	−0.549^∗∗	−0.515^∗∗	−0.021	−0.537^∗∗	1

^∗∗Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed); ∗correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). VM: value (moist), CM: chroma (moist), VM + CM: value (moist) + chroma (moist), VD: value (dry), CD: chroma (dry), VD + CD: value (dry) + chroma (dry).