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- Title
Evaluating Sediment Yield Response to Watershed Management Practices (WMP) by Employing the Concept of Sediment Connectivity.
- Authors
Nazaripouya, Hadi; Sepehri, Mehdi; Atapourfard, Abbas; Ghermezcheshme, Bagher; Santos, Celso Augusto Guimarães; Khoshbakht, Mehdi; Meshram, Sarita Gajbhiye; Rana, Vikas Kumar; Linh, Nguyen Thi Thuy; Pham, Quoc Bao; Anh, Duong Tran
- Abstract
Watershed management practices (WMP) are widely used in catchments as a measure to reduce soil erosion and sediment-related problems. We used a paired catchment in the Gonbad region of Hamadan province, Iran, to evaluate sediment yield response to watershed management practices (WMP) by employing the concept of sediment connectivity (SC). To do this, the SC index as a representation of sediment yield was firstly simulated for the control catchment that there is no WMP. In the next step, the SC index was simulated for impacted catchment, including some WMP, i.e., seeding, pit-seeding, and exclosure. After assessing the accuracy of the produced SC maps using filed observations and erosion plots, the SC maps using quantile-quantile plot (Q-Q plot) were compared to achieve the role of WMP in reducing the rate of sediment yield. The Q-Q plot showed that there is a strong similarity between the SC of catchments, it can be concluded that the WMP has no significant impact on the reducing rate of the sediment yield in this study.
- Subjects
IRAN; WATERSHED management; SOIL erosion; SEDIMENTS
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2023, Vol 15, Issue 3, p2346
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su15032346