Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics and Properties of Soils under Different Land Uses in the Tejibara Watershed, Ethiopia

Table 6

Mean square (MS) and results of two-way analysis of variance of soil physical properties.

Physical properties	Land use			Soil depth (cm)			Interaction effects
	MS	F	P	MS	F	P	MS	F	P
Sand (%)	220.61	2.61	0.092^ns	181.5	2.15	0.164^ns	17.5	0.21	0.889^ns
Silt (%)	61.33	3.65	0.039	10.67	0.64	0.438^ns	25.77	1.54	0.249^ns
Clay (%)	253.94	7.32	0.004	104.17	3.00	0.105^ns	25.94	0.75	0.541^ns
BD (g/cm^3)	0.269	21.93	0.0001	0.096	7.84	0.014	0.015	1.21	0.342^ns
SMC (%)	80.87	4.23	0.0252	64.059	3.35	0.089^ns	56.21	2.94	0.069^ns

Significant at ; significant at ; ns = not significant; MS = mean square; F = calculated value; P = probability; BD = bulk density.