@article{287,
author = "Anjali Mainya Shrestha Malla",
abstract = "Soil is one of the important factors, which has considerable relationship not only with plant growth but also with the variations in topography. Soil analysis, such as moisture content, water holding capacity and texture was carried out from Kirtipur, Dhunche and Chandanbari in two consecutive years. SPSS/PC + statistical software package was used to carry out one way analysis of variance in soil parameters at 0.05 levels. The comparative study of edaphic factors such as moisture content, water holding capacity and texture of the soil of vertical ecological zones such as Kirtipur, Dhunche and Chandanbari, revealed that percentage of moisture and sand of soil showed a positive correlation and are important edaphic factors, which play an important role in changing “Fine texture soil or Medium type” of soil at Kirtipur during year first into “Coarse textured soil or light type” during year second, whereas it was already found “Light type” at Dhunche and Chandanbari areas. So, moisture and sand content of soil is higher in higher altitude while water holding capacity, clay and silt content of soil are lower. Water holding capacity, clay percentage and silt percentage of soil showed a negative correlation with vertical ecological zones. So, water holding capacity, clay and silt content of soil are higher in lower altitude while moisture and sand content of soil is lower. Therefore, the study showed that there is a relationship between edaphic factors and vertical ecological zones of Nepal.",
journal = "IJAIR",
keywords = "Chandanbari; Dhunche; Edaphic Factors; Kirtipur",
month = "September",
number = "2",
pages = "236-241",
title = "{R}elationship {B}etween {E}daphic {F}actors and {V}ertical {E}cological {Z}ones of {N}epal",
volume = "2",
year = "2013",
}