Impact of Land Use Change on Watershed Soil Erosion Under Different Development Scenarios

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaonan Lin ◽  
Shanghong Zhang ◽  
Xiaoning Hou ◽  
Zan Xu
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Development Scenarios

Soil erosion as a driver of land-use change

2005 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha M. Bakker ◽  
Gerard Govers ◽  
Costas Kosmas ◽  
Veerle Vanacker ◽  
Kristof van Oost ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Land Use Change

scholarly journals Assessing the Impact of Floods Disaster on Soil Erosion Risk Based on the RUSLE-GloSEM Approach in Western Iran

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morteza Akbari ◽  
Ehsan Neamatollahi ◽  
Hadi Memarian ◽  
Mohammad Alizadeh Noughani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Erosion Risk ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Global Soil ◽  
Major Floods ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Floods cause great damage to ecosystems and are among the main agents of soil erosion. Given the importance of soils for the functioning of ecosystems and development and improvement of bio-economic conditions, the risk and rate of soil erosion was assessed using the RUSLE model in Iran’s Lorestan province before and after a period of major floods in late 2018 and early 2019. Furthermore, soil erosion was calculated for current and future conditions based on the Global Soil Erosion Modeling Database (GloSEM). The results showed that agricultural development and land use change are the main causes of land degradation in the southern and central parts of the study area. The impact of floods was also significant since our evaluations showed that soil erosion increased from 4.12 t ha-1 yr-1 before the floods to 10.93 t ha-1 yr-1 afterwards. Field surveying using 64 ground control points determined that erodibility varies from 0.17 to 0.49% in the study area. Orchards, farms, rangelands and forests with moderate or low vegetation cover were the most vulnerable land uses to soil erosion. The GloSEM modeling results revealed that climate change is the main cause of change in the rate of soil erosion. Combined land use change-climate change simulation showed that soil erosion will increase considerably in the future under SSP1-RCP2.6, SSP2-RCP4.5, and SSP5-RCP8.5 scenarios. In the study area, both natural factors, i.e. climate change and human factors such as agricultural development, population growth, and overgrazing are the main drivers of soil erosion.

The effects of land-use change on plant-soil-erosion relations, Nyereg Hill, Hungary

2009 ◽  
Vol 172 (4) ◽  
pp. 586-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Csaba Centeri ◽  
Edina Herczeg ◽  
Márton Vona ◽  
Katalin Balázs ◽  
Károly Penksza
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Plant Soil ◽  
Effects Of Land Use

Investigating effects of land use change scenarios on soil erosion using CLUE-s and RUSLE models

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 1905-1918 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zare ◽  
A. A. Nazari Samani ◽  
M. Mohammady ◽  
H. Salmani ◽  
J. Bazrafshan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Effects Of Land Use

How land use change contributes to reducing soil erosion in the Jialing River Basin, China

2014 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 65-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanghong Zhang ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Taiwei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Jialing River
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