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 5

The interaction effects of land use and soil depth on soil exchangeable cations, effective cation exchange capacity, and base saturation percentage of the soils in the Hojje watershed (N = 24).

Land uses type	Ex.Ca^+2 (cmol+ kg^−1)		Ex. Mg^+2 (cmol+ kg^−1)		Ex.K^+ (cmol+ kg^−1)		ECEC (cmol+ kg^−1)		BS%
	Soil depths (cm)
	0–20	20–40	0–20	20–40	0–20	20–40	0–20	20–40	0–20	20–40
HG	10.2^b	11.4^a	10.12^b	11.57^a	2.24^b	2.75^a	23.60^a	26.66^b	96.50^a	98.27^a
GL	3.36^d	3.90^b	2.13^d	3.39^c	1.33^d	1.77^c	10.12^b	11.55^c	69.18^c	81.09^c
CL	2.12^f	2.34^e	1.41^e	2.1^d	0.72^f	0.99^e	9.13^e	10.13^d	48.71^e	55.58^d
EP	2.16^f	2.41^e	1.50^e	2.19^d	0.73^f	1.01^e	9.28^e	10.38^d	49.41^e	56.67^d
LSD (0.05)	0.15		0.13		0.029		0.43		2.33
CV	1.66		1.73		1.21		1.79		1.81

The interaction 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; N, number of samples.