Effects of land use changes on the dynamics of selected soil properties in northeast Wellega, Ethiopia

Adugna, Alemayehu; Abegaz, Assefa

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-63-2016

Articles | Volume 2, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-63-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-63-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 2, issue 1

Original research article

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12 Feb 2016

Original research article |

| 12 Feb 2016

Effects of land use changes on the dynamics of selected soil properties in northeast Wellega, Ethiopia

Alemayehu Adugna and Assefa Abegaz

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RC C572: 'Question about changes to cultivated lands', Lynn Burgess, 03 Nov 2015
RC C663: 'Revision of manuscript SE-2015-95', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Jan 2016
AC C692: 'Final Author Comments', Alemayehu Adugna, 22 Jan 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish as is (05 Feb 2016) by Artemi Cerdà

ED: Publish as is (05 Feb 2016) by Eric C. Brevik (Executive editor)

AR by Alemayehu Urgesa on behalf of the Authors (06 Feb 2016) Manuscript

Short summary

The purpose of our study was to explore the effects of land use changes on the dynamics of soil properties and their implications for land degradation. The result indicates that cultivated land has a lower organic matter, total nitrogen, cation exchange capacity, pH, and exchangeable Ca²⁺ and Mg²⁺ contents than forestland and grazing land.