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Table 2 Effects of land use types on carbon management index at different depths

From: Assessment of soil organic carbon fractions and carbon management index under different land use types in Olesharo Catchment, Narok County, Kenya

  0–15 cm 15–30 cm
ENPOC% CPI LI CMI ENPOC% CPI LI CMI
BL 19.97a 0.34a 0.80a 31.00a 17.00a 0.36a 0.59a 22.77a
GR 23.95a 0.46b 0.81a 41.00ab 17.40a 0.46a 0.64ab 28.93a
AG 27.03c 0.64c 0.82a 53.00b 22.37b 0.68a 0.70c 65.73b
SH 34.99d 1d 1a 100c 27.30b 1c 1c 100c
  1. Means with letters within are statistically different. SH is the reference land use type
  2. GR grasslands, SH shrublands, AG agricultural lands, BL barelands, EN POC enrichment ratio of POC to TOC, CPI carbon pool index, LI lability index, CMI carbon management index