Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Table 9 Correlation coefficient between the soil properties (n = 108)

From: Exclosures backed up with community-based soil and water conservation practices increased soil organic carbon stock and microbial biomass carbon distribution, in the northern highlands of Ethiopia

	MBC	SOC	MBC/SOC	BD	Coarse fragment
MBC	1
SOC	0.39**	1
MBC/SOC	0.87**	− 0.1^ns	1
BD	− 0.11^ns	− 0.19*	− 0.02	1
Coarse fragment	0.21^ns	0.11^ns	0.19	− 0.03^ns	1
SOC stock	0.32**	0.56**	0.07^ns	0.26**	0.76**

ns correlation is not significant
* Correlation is significant at P ≤ 0.05
** Correlation is significant at P ≤ 0.01 confidence interval

Back to article page