Carbon Stock Potential across Different Land Covers in Tropical Ecosystems of Damota Natural Vegetation, Eastern Ethiopia

Table 2

Means (±SD) of soil bulk density, %carbon, and SOC land covers.

Soil parameter	Altitudinal class			Grant mean	value
	FL	WL	BL
BD (g.cm^−3)	1.08^a ± 0.4	0.63^ab ± 0.2	0.58^b ± 0.3	0.76 ± 0.4	0.02
%C	2.14^a ± 0.7	1.94^b ± 0.4	1.56^b ± 0.6	1.88 ± 0.6	0.00
SOC (Mg ha^−1)	80.6^a ± 18.3	71.6^b ± 11.5	65.8^b ± 9.7	72.6 ± 35.7	0.02

BD, bulk density; %C, carbon percentage; BL, bushland; FL, farmland; SOC, soil organic carbon; WL, woodland. Different letters indicate significant differences. , , and indicate significance at 5, 1, and 0.1% significance levels, respectively.