Extractable and total Fe and Mn contents of three sand dune soils in NW Nigeria |
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| Authors: | BA Raji VO Chude IE Esu |
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| Institution: | aDepartment of Soil Science, Institute for Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria;bDepartment of Soil Science, University of Calabar, Calabar |
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| Abstract: | The profile distribution of total, diethylene triamine penta-acetic acid (DTPA)- and 0·1
HCl-extractable Fe and Mn were determined in 12 pedons formed on three contiguous sand dunes in the semi-arid savanna of Nigeria. The total Fe and Mn contents varied from 100 to 3750 and 40 to 11,375 μg g−1, respectively. Values of 0·1
HCl-extractable Fe and Mn varied from 8·0 to 123 and 1·5 to 43·5 μg g−1, respectively. The corresponding values of DTPA-extractable Fe and Mn were 4·5 to 16·0 and 1·0 to 38·8 μg g−1. Total Fe and Mn correlated significantly with clay in nearly all the dunes (p≤ 0·01) but were not significantly correlated with organic matter. The 0·1
HCl-extractable Mn had a positive significant correlation with soil pH (r= 0·58*) in Illela dunes but a negative significant correlation with pH in the Sangiwa dunes (r= −0·75***). The values of extractable Fe and Mn in the sand dune soils are above the critical limits reported in other literature, thus deficiencies of these micronutrients do not pose a problem to crop production in the study area. |
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| Keywords: | total extractable sand dune soils iron manganese semi-arid savanna |
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