Estimation of soil erosion risk within an important agricultural sub-watershed in Bursa, Turkey, in relation to rapid urbanization

• Published in: Environmental monitoring and assessment Vol. 187; no. 7; p. 419
• Main Authors: Ozsoy, Gokhan, Aksoy, Ertugrul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.07.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agricultural production; Agriculture; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Conservation of Natural Resources; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecology; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental Management; Environmental Monitoring; Forest degradation; Geographic Information Systems; Industrial development; Land degradation; Land use; Models, Theoretical; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Population; Risk Assessment; Runoff; Soil; Soil erosion; Soil sciences; Spatial distribution; Topography; Turkey; Urbanization; Water shortages; Water Supply; Watersheds; MED, Turkey; GIS; Urbanization; RUSLE; Soil loss; Remote sensing

This paper integrates the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) with a GIS model to investigate the spatial distribution of annual soil loss and identify areas of soil erosion risk in the Uluabat sub-watershed, an important agricultural site in Bursa Province, Turkey. The total soil loss from...