Status of Soil Acidity under Different Land Use Types and Soil Depths: The Case of Hojje Watershed of Gomibora District, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Table 4

Main effects of land use and soil depth on soil exchangeable cations and base saturation percentage of the soils in the Hojje watershed (N = 24).

	Ex. Ca^+2 (cmol+ kg^−1)	Ex. Mg^+2 (cmol+ kg^−1)	Ex. K^+1 (cmol+ kg^−1)	Ex. Na^+1 (cmol+ kg^−1)	ECEC (cmol+ kg^−1)	CEC (cmol+ kg^−1)	BS%
Land use types
HG	10.86^a	10.84^a	2.49^a	0.3	25.13^a	27.55^a	97.39^a
GL	3.63^b	2.76^b	1.55^b	0.25	10.84^b	13.40^b	75.14^b
CL	2.23^c	1.75^c	0.86^c	0.2	9.63^c	12.64^c	52.14^c
EP	2.28^c	1.85^c	0.87^c	0.23	9.83^c	12.84^c	53.04^c
LSD (0.05)	0.098	0.093	0.022	NS	0.308	0.53	1.61
Soil depth
0–20 cm	4.47^b	3.79^b	1.25^b	0.19^b	13.04^b	17.01^b	65.95^b
20–40 cm	5.03^a	4.81^c	1.63^a	0.3^a	14.68^a	16.21^a	72.91^a
LSD (0.05)	0.69	0.065	0.015	0.07	0.22	0.38	1.14
CV	1.66	1.73	1.21	33.17	1.79	2.61	1.87

Main effect means within a column followed by the same letter are not significantly different from each other at . HG, home garden; GL, grazing land; CL, cultivated land; EP, Eucalyptus plantation; LSD, least significance difference; CV, coefficient of variation; CEC, cation exchange capacity; Ex., exchangeable; BS%, base saturation percentage; cmol_c, cent mole charge; ECEC, effective cation exchange capacity; N, number of samples.