Pasture enclosures increase soil carbon dioxide flux rate in Semiarid Rangeland, Kenya

Table 7 Relationship between GHG flux rates and the environmental parameters under the grazing systems (n = 216)

	CO₂			CH₄			N₂O
	Coeff.	Std. error	P-value	Coeff.	Std. error	P-value	Coeff.	Std. error	P-value
Intercept	− 275.8	235.55	0.01	14.9	161.58	0.03	− 166.94	96.94	0.05
Soil organic carbon	34.03	16.31	0.04	17.47	11.19	0.12	4.13	6.71	0.54
Total nitrogen	− 123.1	136.37	0.37	− 239.73	93.54	0.06	− 80.92	56.12	0.15
Bulk density	137.15	139.82	0.33	113.54	95.91	0.24	110.24	57.54	0.06
Soil temperature	0.39	1.43	0.78	− 1.71	0.98	0.08	0.4	0.59	0.49
Soil moisture	10.6	1.16	< 0.001	3.35	0.8	< 0.001	1.9	0.48	< 0.001
Total herbaceous vegetation cover	− 2.52	2.91	0.39	− 2.96	2	0.14	0.73	1.2	0.54
Above ground biomass	0.17	0.08	0.03	0.07	0.05	0.17	− 0.03	0.03	0.38

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