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Published online 27 October 2006
Published in J Environ Qual 35:2402-2409 (2006)
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2005.0447
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The Effect of Land Use on Soil Health Indicators in Peri-Urban Agriculture in the Humid Forest Zone of Southern Cameroon

Adolphe Monkiedjea, Michael Spitellerb,*, Daniel Fotioc and Premasis Sukulb

a Lab. of General Biology, Dep. of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Science, Univ. of Yaounde I, P.O. Box 812, Cameroon
b Institute of Environmental Research (INFU), Univ. of Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Str. 6, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
c Institute of Agric. Research for Development (IRAD), P.O. Box 8367, Yaounde-Cameroon


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  		Fig. 1. A map of experimental sites.

 

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  		Fig. 2. Effect of land use on the available nitrogen content. Average ± standard deviation (three independent samples); where absent, bars fall within symbols.

 

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  		Fig. 3. Effect of land use on available P content. Value for cropped land in lettuce (1239.0 ± 2.5 mg kg–1 dry soil) is not plotted. Average ± standard deviation (three independent samples); where absent, bars fall within symbols.

 

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  		Fig. 4. Effect of land use on microbial biomass C. Average ± standard deviation (three independent samples); where absent, bars fall within symbols.

 

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  		Fig. 5. Effect of land use on microbial biomass N and microbial biomass P. Average ± standard deviation (three independent samples); where absent, bars fall within symbols.

 

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  		Fig. 6. Effect of land use on soil phosphatases and ß-glucosidase activities. Average ± standard deviation (three independent samples); where absent, bars fall within symbols.

 

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  		Fig. 7. Effect of land use on soil dehydrogenase activity. Average ± standard deviation (three independent samples).

 

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  		Fig. 8. Effect of land use on soil phenol oxidase activity. Average ± standard deviation (three independent samples).

 




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