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

Table 8

Cumulative soil moisture contents (in % of dry soil) used to model the water characteristic curves of the Gleysols in the Bamenda wetlands.

Properties	HW	UW	UW + AWR	UW + AWR + GW	UW + AWR + GW + AC
Mile 4 Nkwen (n = 3)	8.17	21.59	27.18	41.48	57.68
Below Foncha (n = 4)	16.40	21.86	43.72	52.02	80.72
Mulang (n = 5)	11.73	23.67	49.39	55.79	78.49
Ngomgham (n = 5)	16.6	28.46	56.91	64.11	91.70
Ntamulung (n = 3)	14.22	19.39	38.78	47.53	73.84
Mean (n = 20)	13.72	23.00	44.60	52.20	76.50

HW: hygroscopic water content; UW: unavailable water content; AWR: available water reserve; CW: capillary water content; GW: gravity water content; AC: air content; n: number of samples.