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

Table 4

Summary statistics of the soil moisture characteristics in the Bamenda wetlands (n = 20).

Parameters	HW	WP	FC	AWR	AWC	RAW	CW	UW	WHC	D	GW	AC
	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)	(mm/m)	(mm/m)	(%)	(%)	(mm/m)	(dm/m)	(%)	(%)
Minimum	7.20	22.14	48.16	11.13	215.83	289.21	29.04	0.11	431.66	2.65	0.72	6.49
Maximum	23.02	58.86	75.34	45.80	423.61	567.64	57.00	27.59	847.22	4 .44	13.52	31.86
Mean	13.72	44.80	67.00	22.20	339.85	45540	48.09	8.48	679.70	3.83	7.46	24.76
SD	4.87	11.16	7.09	10.16	62.87	84.24	6.65	8.25	125.73	0.45	4.08	6.89
CV	36.00	25.00	11.00	46.00	18.00	18.00	14.00	97.00	18.00	12.00	55.00	28.00
Skew	0.59	−0.66	−1.15	1.27	−0.48	−0.48	−1.21	1.33	−0.48	−1.06	−0.14	−1.19
Kurtosis	−0.53	−0.45	1.10	0.63	−0.70	−0.70	2.16	0.47	−0.70	0.81	−1.40	0.97
K-S stat	0.13	0.13	0.16	0.20	0.13	0.13	0.12	0.25	0.13	0.22	0.13	0.20

HW: hygroscopic water; WP: permanent wilting point; FC: field capacity; AWR: available water reserve; AWC: available water content; RAW: readily available water; CW: capillary water; UW: unavailable water; WHC: water-holding capacity; D: weighting depth; AC: air content; GW: gravity water; CV: coefficient of variation; SD: standard deviation; K-S stat: Kolmogorov–Smirnov statistics.