Effects of soil and water conservation practices on soil physicochemical properties in Gumara watershed, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

Ecological Processes

Table 2 The mean and their significant variations (one-way ANOVA) of soil physical properties in conserved and non-conserved plots

		Soil particle size proportions			Soil texture	Soil textural class	Bulk density (g cm^-³)
		Sand (%)	Clay (%)	Silt (%)	Soil texture	Soil textural class	Bulk density (g cm^-³)
Treatment	CL	7.83	67.8	24.3	Fine	Clay	1.250
	NCL	10.3	60.5	29.2	Fine	Clay	1.247
	F ratio	.864	1.914	1.258	Fine	Clay	.002
	p	.363^ns	.18^ns	.274^ns	–	–	.963^ns

CL conserved land, NCL non-conserved land, P p value, ns not significant at p < 0.05