X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 X6 X7 X8 X9 X10 X11 X12 X13 X14 X15 X16 X1 1                               X2 -0.988** 1                             X3 -0.994** 0.966** 1                           X4 0.938** -0.880** -0.965** 1                         X5 -0.999** 0.985** 0.995** -0.944** 1                       X6 -0.760* 0.832* 0.711 -0.579 0.753 1                     X7 -0.991** 0.995** 0.975** -0.895** 0.991** 0.813* 1                   X8 -0.930** 0.971** 0.894** -0.780* 0.925** 0.937** 0.959** 1                 X9 -0.618 0.712 0.561 -0.414 0.610 0.980** 0.685 0.856* 1               X10 -0.608 0.701 0.550 -0.405 0.599 0.978** 0.674 0.848* 1.000** 1             X11 -0.810* 0.878** 0.763* -0.630 0.805* 0.995** 0.862* 0.963** 0.959** 0.954** 1           X12 -0.790* 0.871* 0.729 -0.571 0.780* 0.972** 0.843* 0.953** 0.943** 0.936** 0.982** 1         X13 -0.708 0.791* 0.654 -0.507 0.698 0.995** 0.766* 0.911** 0.992** 0.990** 0.984** 0.970** 1       X14 -0.805* 0.876** 0.755* -0.610 0.797* 0.993** 0.857* 0.963** 0.960** 0.955** 0.998** 0.989** 0.986** 1     X15 -0.915** 0.961** 0.875** -0.742 0.906** 0.935** 0.945** 0.995** 0.860* 0.852* 0.959** 0.961** 0.917** 0.966** 1   X16 -0.782* 0.859* 0.728 -0.578 0.775* 0.992** 0.840* 0.954** 0.966** 0.962** 0.996** 0.989** 0.989** 0.998** 0.958** 1

** Correlation is significant p<0.01 and * correlation is significant p<0.05. Xi (i=1-16) stands for sand, slit, clay, bulk density, water holding capacity, moisture content, pH, OC, TN, EP, amylase, invertase, protease, urease, phosphatase and dehydrogenase activity.

Table 4: Simple correlation coefficient of different soil properties.