Research Article
Soil Physicochemical Properties Variation under Annual Crop and Coffee Landuse in the Chentale Watershed, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
Table 6
Pearson’s correlation matrix for various soil physicochemical parameters.
| | BD | TP | Clay | MC | PH | EC | Av.P | OM | Ca | Mg | K | Na | CEC | TN |
| BD | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TP | −0.9 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clay | 0.85 | −0.85 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | MC | 0.07 ns | −0.07 ns | 0.16 ns | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | PH | −0.77 | 0.77 | −0.89 | −0.32 ns | 1 | | | | | | | | | | EC | −0.64 | 0.64 | −0.62 | −0.1 ns | 0.72 | 1 | | | | | | | | | Av.P | −0.72 | 0.72 | −0.72 | −0.42 ns | 0.87 | −0.44 ns | 1 | | | | | | | | OM | −0.77 | 0.77 | −0.75 | −0.47 ns | 0.84 | 0.57 ns | 0.86 | 1 | | | | | | | Ca | −0.22 ns | 0.22 ns | −0.45 ns | −0.31 ns | 0.53 ns | 0.48 ns | 0.58 | 0.45 ns | 1 | | | | | | Mg | −0.66 | 0.66 | −0.8 | −0.18 ns | 0.92 | 0.7 | −0.8 | 0.72 | 0.68 | 1 | | | | | K | −0.75 | 0.75 | −0.84 | −0.24 ns | 0.97 | 0.69 | 0.85 | 0.81 | 0.58 | 0.97 | 1 | | | | Na | 0.66 ns | −0.52 ns | 0.68 | −0.13 ns | 0.86 | 0.73 | −0.6 | 0.57 ns | 0.52 ns | 0.88 | 0.9 | 1 | | | CEC | −0.65 | 0.65 | 0.61 | 0.13 ns | 0.69 | 0.91 | 0.53 ns | 0.46 | 0.45 | 0.69 | 0.7 | 0.78 | 1 | | TN | −0.66 | 0.66 | −0.71 | 0.55 ns | 0.74 | 0.27 ns | 0.78 | 0.91 | 0.4 ns | 0.63 | 0.72 | 0.41 ns | 0.15 ns | 1 |
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Significant at , highly significant at , ns: nonsignificant at . |