Research Article

Spatial Variability of Soil Organic Carbon Stock in Gurje Subwatershed, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of SOC and SOCS at the two depths.

VariableDepth (cm)MeanMedianSDCV%MinMaxSkKPk-s

SOC0–2021.5121.28.7940.887.839.80.12−0.980.155
20–4017.0917.457.7745.476.9320.35−1.170.003

SOCS0–2034.0632.315.7446.2312.5882.621.212.120.047
20–4025.8523.8913.3151.499.8565.61.291.720.151

SOC = soil organic carbon, SOCS = soil organic carbon stock, CV = coefficient of variation, SD = standard deviation, Min = minimum, Max = maximum, SK = skewness, and K = kurtosis. Pk-s =  value in Kolmogorov–Smirnov test for normal distribution of data must be greater than 0.05.