Variability of Soil Micronutrients Concentration along the Slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Table 2

Descriptive statistics for the soil micronutrients on the southern slopes Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.

Soil property	Max	Min	Mean (SE)	Std. dev.	Kurtosis	Skewness	CV
0–20 cm
Fe (mgkg^−1)	310.60	39.29	130.41 (6.9)	49.2	2.54	1.12	0.38
Mn (mgkg^−1)	757.04	14.33	193.43 (20.56)	145.39	0.33	1.75	0.75
Zn (mgkg^−1)	10.34	0.92	2.82 (0.27)	1.97	4.35	2.00	0.69
B (mgkg^−1)	3.50	0.000078	0.68 (0.1)	0.72	4.24	1.92	1.06
Cu (mgkg^−1)	24.67	0.75	8.49 (0.85)	6.03	0.70	1.23	0.71
Soil pH (1 : 2 soil : water)	9.03	5.21	6.58 (0.13)	0.93		0.59	0.14
21–50 cm
Fe (mgkg^−1)	229.70	28.36	119.06 (6.12)	43.26		0.31	0.36
Mn (mgkg^−1)	827.58	8.9	185.45 (22.1)	156.3	5.26	2.05	0.84
Zn (mgkg^−1)	7.24	0.51	2.18 (0.18)	1.24	3.8	1.64	0.57
B (mgkg^−1)	3.74	0.00001	0.77 (0.12)	0.86	2.21	1.65	1.11
Cu (mgkg^−1)	19.8	0.47	7.4 (0.72)	5.06	0.03	0.99	0.68
Soil pH (1 : 2 soil : water)	9.55	5.23	6.78 (0.15)	1.08	0.01	0.85	0.16

Note. max = maximum, min = minimum, SE = standard error of the mean, std. dev. = standard deviation, and CV = coefficient of variation.