[PDF] Top 20 Assessing soil erosion due to land use change at the Alqueva reservoir surrounding area

... Over the past few decades, numerous advances have been made to assess soil erosion, in order to overcome the costs and unfeasibility of monitoring in ...Modelling soil ... See full document

... of the Alqueva reservoir in a semi-arid Mediterranean landscape brought new opportunities for irrigated ...farming. Land use changes and climate change may alter the risk ... See full document

... and land-use/cover changes (LUCC) influence soil erosion vulnerability in the semi-arid region of Alqueva, threatening the reservoir storage capacity and ... See full document

... making the reservoir sediment a potential soil remineralizer; (6) strong organic matter enrichment also favors its agricultural use; (7) addition of powdered carbonate phyllite from nearby ... See full document

... from the soil surface mainly by the action of water and/or wind in a process called erosion, the main natural soil depth reducing ...If the soil material is ... See full document

... has the advantages of being distribution‑free and easy to interpret over traditional supervised classifiers, and, therefore, has received increasing attention in remote sensing classification (Miller &  ... See full document

... Even the “Caatinga” ecosystem being heterogeneous both vertically and horizontally, it has an expressive potential for development of rural productivity activities, despite the low amounts of precipitation ... See full document

... considering the stipulated criteria of size and shape; color and tonality, location of the object in the landscape; texture and structure of the ...that the satellite images used have a ... See full document

... of the planet’s resources, and consequently potentially undermining the capacity of the ecosystems to maintaining a safe operating space for ...ecosystems. The Brazilian Cerrado is a ... See full document

... In the past, the application of ANN technologies in geosciences was primarily limited due to difficulties to integrate it into geo-data processing ...background, the software ... See full document

... was to compare the effects of LUC from corn–soybean to PG biomass production on the relative abun- dances of total (16S rRNA gene target) and denitrifier (nirS and nosZ gene targets) ... See full document

... favors the higher discharge and erosion processes transporting more sediments and nutrients to the ...well the contribution of the groundwater on the discharge that may ... See full document

... basin area can be divided into two geomorphological compartments (Plateau and Peripheral Depression) plus a transition area (Plateau Edge) (KONRAD, ...cording to the same author, an altitude ... See full document

... In the detection of land use change, multi-temporal RS images of the same areas mainly serve three purpose:1)providing the ground feature distribution; 2)describing the ... See full document

... leading to its maintenance and ac- cumulation (Bayer & Mielniczuk, 1999; Resck et ...lead to a higher input of resi- dues and ...in soil under NT is ...relation to native cerrado or a CT ... See full document

... firmed the differences discussed above, mainly between all groups of analyzed soils ...between soil properties depending on the slope ...from the top of the hill- slope on all four ... See full document

... Land-use change is considered likely to be one of main drivers of biodiversity changes in grassland ...ecosystems. To gain insight into the impact of land use on ... See full document

... was to map the risks of water erosion in the watershed using the RUSLE and GIS, and highlight, by mapping land uses, the role of land use and vegetation ... See full document

... on the other hand, can reflect soil loss processes and simulate soil erosion changes as a function of land use change by using more parameters, and they are potentially ... See full document

... Simultaneously, the degradation of this ecosystem is examined by the anthropogenic activities, which has gradually or steeply increased in these zones at the same time ...data, the hot ... See full document