Journal
CATENA
Volume 83, Issue 1, Pages 76-86Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2010.06.012
Keywords
Soil erosion; Conservation priorities; Erosion changing trends; GIS; Remote sensing; Guanting reservoir
Funding
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KZCX1-YW-08-03]
- Haihe River Water Conservancy Committee, The Ministry of Water Resources, People's Republic of China [HW-STBC2004-03]
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Conservation prioritization is an important consideration for planning of natural resources management. allowing demon makers to implement management strategies that are more sustainable in the long-term. However, only a current erosion status or a relative index cannot exactly identify priority area for conservation. The objective of this paper is to identify conservation priorities by a specific multicriteria evaluation method. Trends in erosion risk indicate regions of increasing erosion risk and are also chosen as one of the evaluation criteria to identify the priorities based on the instability of soil erosion in the Yongding river basin In this paper, vegetation cover, land-use. and slope gradient are used to assess erosion risk and trends in erosion risk are obtained by comparing the results of erosion risk between 2000 and 2006. Using this information, the priority conservation areas are graded into six levels The two highest priority levels cover the regions with severe erosion or a substantial recent increase in erosion risk (4722 56 km(2). or 11 82% of the study area), and are recommended as erosion control regions with appropriate conservation strategies. The middle two levels cover the regions with stable erosion status or slight change, needing only minor measures. The method presented is fast and straightforward, showing good potential for successful application in other areas (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserved.
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