Evaluation of Soil Erosion and Sustainable Land Use Management in the Sarısu Basin
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Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. İrfan OĞUZ
Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi, Türkiye
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Özgün Makale
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| Makale Alt Türü | Ulusal alan endekslerinde (TR Dizin, ULAKBİM) yayınlanan tam makale |
| Dergi Adı | Türk Tarım - Gıda Bilim ve Teknoloji dergisi |
| Dergi ISSN | 2148-127X |
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | TR DİZİN |
| Makale Dili | İngilizce |
| Basım Tarihi | 08-2017 |
| Cilt No | 5 |
| Sayı | 8 |
| Sayfalar | 864 / 872 |
| DOI Numarası | 10.24925/turjaf.v5i8.864-872.1150 |
| Makale Linki | http://www.agrifoodscience.com/index.php/TURJAF/article/view/1150 |
| Özet |
| Land use management requires controlling natural resources for sustainability. Soilerosion related to improper land use is a major issue around the world. Land degradationmay harm the health of ecosystems. Defining the soil loss in a basin is the starting pointin the restoration of soil quality for crop production. Reducing soil losses to a tolerablerate is one of the primary objectives for sustainability and soil conservation. CentralAnatolia is under considerable risk due to an increase in the cultivation of marginal landsfor food production. Cultivated lands have already been reached the final limitsthroughout the last 50 years. Moreover, forests and considerable areas of pasture haverecently been converted to ploughed fields due to agricultural expansion. This study wasconducted in the Sarısu basin to evaluate soil losses and land use management forsustainability. The Universal Soil Loss Equation model and Geographic InformationSystem techniques were used to estimate the soil losses. The mean potential soil loss ofthe basin was calculated to be 1.88 t ha-1per year with the Universal Soil Loss Equationmodel. These results are comparatively small when compared to the average value forTurkey of 13 t ha-1yearly. Our calculated results are closer to the value for the Sakaryariver basin, which is approximately 2.77 t ha-1y-1. In this study, land usages in the Sarısu basin were evaluated in terms of soil losses, tolerable soil loss rates and soil conservation precautions. |
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| TRDizin | 1 |
| Google Scholar | 7 |