Soil Water Characteristics of Gleysols in the Bamenda (Cameroon) Wetlands and Implications for Agricultural Management Strategies

Table 2

Summary statistics of the soil physical characteristics and organic matter content (n = 20).

Parameters	Dp	Db	Porosity	Particle size distribution					Coarse fragments	Sand/silt ratio	Silt/clay ratio	SOC	SOCS
				Fine sand	Coarse sand	Fine silt	Coarse silt	Clay
	g·cm^−3	g·cm^−3	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	Mg·ha^−1
Minimum	2.30	1.30	40.00	6.00	9.00	8.00	10.00	27.00	3.00	0.50	0.55	5.67	251.63
Maximum	2.50	1.60	43.48	22.00	22.00	29.00	22.00	60.00	25.00	1.65	1.96	19.45	804.93
Mean	2.36	1.45	42.32	13.60	15.10	15.70	17.90	37.90	12.10	0.90	0.96	13.66	593.68
SD	0.067	0.083	1.19	4.39	4.49	5.97	3.55	7.92	577.00	0.31	0.44	4.14	172.61
CV	2.86	5.67	2.80	32.00	29.00	38.50	19	21	47.89	34.00	10.5	30.32	29.07
Skew	0.549	−0.176	−0.464	0.477	0.400	0.720	−1.197	0.957	0.521	0.99	1.390	−0.450	−0.52
Kurtosis	−0.548	−0.212	−7.65	−0.575	−1.29	−0.08	0.27	1.71	0.27	0.56	0.98	−0.92	−0.85
K-S stat	0.284	0.257	0.287	0.238	0.226	0.133	0.269	0.119	0.203	0.122	0.210	0.147	0.282

D_p: particle density; D_b: bulk density; CV: coefficient of variation; SD: standard deviation; K-S stat: Kolmogorov–Smirnov statistics.