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Table 3 Effects of sub-watersheds, landscape positions, and land-use types on biomass carbon stock and exported and sequestered carbon

From: Sustainable land management interventions lead to carbon sequestration in plant biomass and soil in a mixed crop-livestock system: the case of Geda watershed, central highlands of Ethiopia

 

N

Mg ha−1

MS carbon stock (1)

DS carbon stock (2)

Exported carbon (1–2)

CO2 equiv. (SC)

Sub-watershed (SW)

 Untreated

40

2.95b

0.14b

2.81a

0.52b

 Treated

50

4.33a

2.52a

1.82b

9.24a

Landscape position (LP)

   

Untreated upper

20

2.69b

0.12c

3.06

0.45c

  Lower

20

3.22b

0.16c

2.57

0.57c

Treated upper

20

2.86b

1.09b

1.77

3.98b

  Lower

30

5.32a

3.47a

1.84

12.75a

Land-use types (LU)

Untreated crop

20

3.46b

0.16c

3.30a

0.58c

  Grazing

20

2.45c

0.12c

3.07a

0.44c

Treated crop

20

4.02b

0.95b

2.33b

3.48b

  Grazing

20

2.24c

0.84b

1.40c

3.10b

  Tree lucerne

10

9.15a

9.01a

0.14d

33.07a

P-SW

 

***

***

***

***

P-LP

 

***

***

ns

***

P-LU

 

***

***

***

***

  1. Means within columns under each topic followed by different letter(s) are significantly different from each other at P ≤ 0.05; ***significant at P ≤ 0.001; ns non-significant, MS main season, DS dry season, equiv. equivalent