Research Article

Quantifying the Effect of Soil Ameliorants on Soil Crusting by Means of Field Experiments in a Wildlife Protected Area, South Africa

Table 6

The influence of different treatments on the double ring infiltrometer test values.

TreatmentsFinal infiltration rate (mm/h)

1PAM 0.5 g/m27.37
2PAM 2.0 g/m210.00b
3PAM 0.5 g/m2 and molasses meal 500 g/m2
4PAM 0.5 g/m2 and gypsum 250 g/m27.37
5Gypsum 250 g/m21.07ab
6Gypsum 250 g/m2 and molasses meal 500 g/m26.70
7Molasses meal 500 g/m24.672
8Control3.701

abColumn means with same superscript differ . 12Column means with same subscript tend to differ . Standard error of the means ± 2.581.